"Its about all the trials and tribulations that happen from us being out on the road." March 2, 2017 11:13 AM

Future Islands / Tom Hines

By Brian Ives

From Bob Segers Turn the Page to Tenacious Ds The Road, from AC/DCs Its a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock n Roll) to Journeys Faithfully, theres a time-honored tradition of rock bands writing about what its like to spend weeks, months or years on tour.

With a decade behind them, Future Islands have logged many miles on the road, and that led to their new single and video, Ran, as singer Sam Herring tellsRadio.com.

We kind of got off the road at the end of 2015 on our two-year album cycle for our last record, Singles, which came out around this time in 2014, three years ago, he says. We took maybe a month off, and we started the writing sessions for the next record in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We went down and rented a house in Buxton, North Carolina, in the southern part of the Outer Banks. Were all from, or grew up in, North Carolina, so that place is very important to us.

He continues: But it was a way for us to kind of get away and reconvene as friends and musical partners, but get away from everything and just sit down and write. So we rented this house and just set up all our gear in the living room and started making sounds, and Ran came out of the music came out of that session. And it was one of the first songs; it was written for the album. But I think, in a way, it encapsulates a lot of the themes that come out of the record, which arent necessarily new to us because weve spent most of the last nine and a half, ten years on the road as a touring band. So thats How we feelwhen we fall, when we fold, when we lose control, on these roads.'

Its about all the trials and tribulations that happen from us being out on the road, the things that we miss back home, and also the things we go towards and all those feelings. So I think it pretty much encapsulates a lot of the things weve written about over time.

Ran is the first single from Future IslandsThe Far Field, due out on April 7. The band will be touring for much of the year; check out their tour dates at Eventful.

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