Return to the Sea

This article is about the Islands album. For the Nightwish song, see A Return to the Sea.

Return to the Sea
Studio album by Islands
Released	April 4, 2006
Genre	Indie rock, indie pop
Length	55:45
Label	Equator Records/ Rough Trade Records
Islands chronology
Return to the Sea (2006) Arm's Way (2008)Arm's Way2008

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Return to the Sea is the full-length debut by indie rock band Islands. It was released April 4, 2006 on Equator Records.

The cover painting is "The Sea of Ice" by Caspar David Friedrich, 1824.

Track listing

1. "Swans (Life After Death)" – 9:31
2. "Humans" – 4:58
3. "Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby" – 2:31
4. "Rough Gem" – 3:36
5. "Tsuxiit" – 3:05
6. "Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone" feat. Busdriver, Subtitle – 3:56
7. "Jogging Gorgeous Summer" – 2:48
8. "Volcanoes" – 5:26
9. "If" – 4:31
10. "Ones" – 5:40
11. "Bucky Little Wing" (hidden track) – 16:20/9:38

Trivia

• "Swans (Life After Death)" contains references to Nicholas Thorburn's last album 'Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?' with The Unicorns. Parts of the lyrics are similar to the song 'Ready to Die' on the same album, and features the same opening riff seen on The Unicorns' song "Thunder And Lightning".
• Peach Moon, a song featured on The Unicorns' album Three Inches of Blood, is also referenced in the "Swans (Life After Death) lyrics: "Till the morning dawned on us/ And the sun-smudged peach moon still hung loose".
• "Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby" was featured briefly in a scene in episode 5, season 2 of How I Met Your Mother.

External links

• Islands on MySpace