Future Islands Biography

Future Islands are a synthpop band based in Baltimore Maryland signed to 4AD. The band is composed of Gerrit Welmers (keyboards and programming) William Cashion (bass acoustic and electric guitars) and Samuel T. Herring (words and vocals). Future Islands formed in January 2006 in Greenville North Carolina.
The band met and formed while studying art at East Carolina University in Greenville. Their first band was Art Lord & the Self-Portraits which included Samuel T. Herring William Cashion Gerrit Welmers Adam Beeby and Kymia Nawabi. That band lasted from February 2003 until fall of 2005. In 2006 Cashion Herring and Welmers formed Future Islands with Erick Murillo who played an electronic drum kit.
Future Islands released Little Advances in April 2006 and a self-released split CD with Welmers' solo project Moss of Aura in January 2007. They recorded their debut album Wave Like Home with Chester Gwazda at Backdoor Skateshop in Greenville NC later that year. London-based label Upset the Rhythm released Wave Like Home in the Summer of 2008. The cover art was designed by Kymia Nawabi a former member of Art Lord & the Self-Portraits.

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