Off the Record Reviews: Future Islands, In Evening Air

When Future Islands dropped In Evening Air in 2010, it felt like a secret whispered from the edges of Baltimore’s art scene—a raw, unpolished gem born from the trio’s earlier incarnation, Art Lord & the Self-Portraits, a 2006 art school experiment. Sam Herring, Gerrit Welmers, and William Cashion had already begun shedding that avant-garde skin…