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]
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| Released | May 4, 2010 (2010-05-04) | |||
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| Length | 36:04 | |||
| Label | Thrill Jockey | |||
| Producer | Chester Endersby Gwazda | |||
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In Evening Air was heavily influenced by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1983 album, Dazzle Ships.[2][3]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Walking Through That Door" | 4:34 |
| 2. | "Long Flight" | 5:15 |
| 3. | "Tin Man" | 3:14 |
| 4. | "An Apology" | 3:44 |
| 5. | "In Evening Air" | 1:13 |
| 6. | "Swept Inside" | 4:47 |
| 7. | "Inch of Dust" | 3:34 |
| 8. | "Vireo's Eye" | 4:08 |
| 9. | "As I Fall" | 5:35 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 6.8/10[4] |
| Metacritic | 74/100[5] |
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| AllMusic | |
| Drowned in Sound | 7/10[7] |
| Pitchfork | 7.6/10[8] |
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| Sputnikmusic | 4/5[10] |
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The album received mostly positive reviews with Pitchfork giving it 7.6/10.[8] The aggregated score from 11 critics on Metacritic is a rating of 74/100.[5]
The songs Inch of Dust and Vireo's Eye were used for the TV series Shameless.
[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.
[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.
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