Myself, after 50+ years of hearing Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide", if I never hear it again, I will be just fine. I actively turn it off if it ever comes on.
Somewhere I read not long ago that it takes 60-100 plays of a song for a person to tire of it. I don't know the data behind that, but that seems like a low number for a great song. I mean, it only took me once to know I never want to hear "Kokomo" again.
Anyway, I say all this to bring up Future Islands. They've been around for 20 years, and I'd say they hit pseudo-mainstream about 14 years ago. With XM radio they show up more. I never remember hearing them on FM.
They have a style. Kind of singular. Mind you, I don't truly own a thing of theirs nor have actively sought them out. But they pop up on XM or Apple Play and normally I don't turn them off. It's all familiar to their other stuff, to a degree for a while I didn't know some of them were different songs. Not bad songs, just similar.
I'd say my first true exposure to them was a song called "Seasons" from about 14 years ago. It's still heavily played on some XM stations - relatively speaking.
Two or three years ago was their latest disk, which had the "hit" (yes, in quotes) called "the Tower". The sound is very similar to "Seasons", but it might just be the same iteration of the band has been together forever. If you ever caught them on Letterman or Colbert, you'd see they sound the same live as they do in the studio - which is a plus these days.
"the Tower" has made its way into my latest running playlist. Whether it stays there for Berlin is unknown, but so far its good for a steady pace. That's enough for me.
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