UK band Island of Love recently announced their self-titled debut album, on May 12th via Third Man Records London. The band, who put on such an impressive live show that Third Man signed them on-the-spot after seeing them perform live. Today, following the previously released “Grow,” “Blues 2000,” Island of Love share a new single off of the forthcoming album entitled “Fed Rock.”

“We wrote this song about a lot of the bands we were seeing around us when we first started gigging in London. It was one of the first songs written for the album and has always been a highlight of our set, and I think the faster pace of the song reflects the time it was written – the summer when we played our very first shows,” explains Munch. “We were moving from Ben’s studio (Fuzzbrain in London) to small venues for the first time and our set was still heavily weighted on the side of stoned jams like Tall Boots (from 2020 EP ‘Promo Tape’) and Head Case (from 2022 EP ‘Songs of Love’). We all felt this new creeping influence of bands like Thin Lizzy and Ramones which gave Fed Rock a different energy, while having a song in the set that said what we felt about certain bands we played alongside always made playing with them that little bit more bearable. The video was shot around Fuzzbrain with a small group of friends and family on a sunny day in February. The camera is shaky and the narrative is loose, but the spectacle of Dan’s Rambo-style blaze of glory at the mercy of two banana-wielding monkey detectives is alone worth the price of admission.”

In September 2021, Island of Love – Karim Newble on guitars/vocals, Linus Munch on guitars/vocals and Daniel Giraldo on bass –were invited to perform at the grand opening of Third Man’s The Blue Basement. It’s a good thing Island of Love showed up to the gig at all, given that the band didn’t even think the email invitation they received to play was real. That very real and not-spam offer during the band’s cigarette break not only led to their on-the-spot label signing, but to opening slots for Jack White, and now their debut. With influences from the band’s start in the London hardcore punk scene and their DIY community roots, the album is elevated by the shared vocal and songwriting duties of Newble and Munch. Produced by Fuzzbrain’s Ben Spence and engineered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Jeff Rosenstock, Joyce Manor), Island of Love is an album full of songs that pinball back and forth between tones and styles.

Island Of Love
Island Of Love
Tracklisting
Third Man Records

1. Big Whale
2. Fed Rock
3. Grow
4. Blues 2000
5. Sweet Loaf
6. I’ve Got The Secret
7. Losing Streak
8. Weekend At Clive’s
9. Charles
10. Never Understand
11. It Was All OK Forever

Island Of Love 2023 Tour dates

March 16th – The Lubber Fiend – Newcastle, UK
March 17th – Delicious Clam – Sheffield, UK
March 18th – Outpost – Liverpool. UK
March 19th – Aatma – Manchester, UK
March 30th – Clermont Fest – Clermont FR
April 13th – VOL – Barcelona, ES
April 14th – Le Ravelin – Toulouse, FR
April 15th – Chinastraat – Ghent, BE
April 16th – Le Rigoletto – Paris, FR
April 17th – Music City – Antwerp, BE
April 18th – Vera – Groningen, NL
April 19th – Cineto – Amsterdam, NL
April 20th – Autobahn – Berlin, DE
April 21st – Ada – Warsaw, PL
April 23rd – Underdogs – Prague, CZ
April 24th – Venster 99 – Vienna, AT
April 25th – Cafe XXE – Fribourg, CH
April 26th – Monami – Brescia, IT
April 27th – L’Intermediaire – Marseille, FR
May 13th – Rough Trade East – London, UK

Pre Order Island Of Love by Island of Love HERE