In Evening Air Explained

In Evening Air
Type:	studio
Artist:	Future Islands
Cover:	InEveningAir.jpg
Length:	36:04
Label:	Thrill Jockey
Producer:	Chester Endersby Gwazda
Prev Title:	Wave Like Home
Prev Year:	2008
Next Title:	On the Water
Next Year:	2011

In Evening Air is the second album by American synth-pop band Future Islands, released on May 4, 2010 by Thrill Jockey records. It is titled after a poem of the same name by Theodore Roethke from his final collection, The Far Field. The album art was produced by former band member Kymia Nawabi.^[1]

In Evening Air was heavily influenced by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1983 album, Dazzle Ships.^{[2] [3]}

Reception

The album received mostly positive reviews with Pitchfork giving it 7.6/10.^[4] The aggregated score from 11 critics on Metacritic is a rating of 74/100.^[5]

Trivia

The songs Inch of Dust and Vireo's Eye were used for the TV series Shameless.

External links

• Allmusic profile

Notes and References

1. http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Future-Islands/In-Evening-Air In Evening Air
2. Web site: The past and present of Future Islands. Stamp. Tony. April 6, 2017. Radio New Zealand. November 24, 2021. [Samuel T. Herring:] Dazzle Ships... became a huge inspiration and influence in creating our second album In Evening Air, not only in the sounds that we were using but in the actual track layout of that record..
3. Book: Houghton, Richard. 2019. OMD: Pretending to See the Future. expanded paperback. This Day in Music Books. 363–364. 978-1-9161156-2-0. [William Cashion:] We kept coming back to Dazzle Ships as a reference... We made a huge leap forward with our [In Evening Air] album because of Dazzle Ships influence..
4. Web site: Future Islands: In Evening Air. Pitchfork. 23 March 2012.
5. Web site: In Evening Air. Metacritic. 23 March 2012.