Future Islands announce new album, share new song “The Tower”

Future Islands have announced details of their new album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore. The seventh album from the band fronted by Samuel T. Herring will be released on January 26 and follows 2020’s As Long As You Are. A video for the band's new song "The Tower" can be found below.

People Who Aren’t There Anymore will also feature the previously released singles "Deep In The Night," "King of Sweden," and "Peach."

The video for "The Tower" was directed by Jonathan van Tulleken, who Herring worked with on the Apple TV series The Changeling. Herring made his acting debut on the horror-adjacent show, in which he plays a friend of LaKeith Stanfield's lead character Apollo.

In a statement, van Tulleken said: "Anyone who’s seen Sam on stage shape shift with his whole body and voice from heart wrenchingly tender to fantastically ferocious knows that he is a truly, magnetic, performer. This was no small reason why he was cast for a role in The Changeling where he plays a complex character who appears to be one thing whilst actually another. It was a role that would be no easy task for even the most seasoned actor but Sam, applying all his stage craft, charisma, smarts and natural empathy, absolutely nailed it producing a riveting performance.

"I loved working with someone who came to acting via this persona they had built in their music. To then get to collaborate on a music video with the band was a delight, especially one which explores that duality of light and dark literally and metaphorically. Finding that same captivating, haunting, performance but this time with the track as script."