A Sleep & a Forgetting

This article is about the Islands album. For the short story, see A Sleep and a Forgetting.

A Sleep & a Forgetting
Studio album by Islands
Released	February 14, 2012
Genre	Indie rock
Length	47:34
Label	ANTI-
Islands chronology
Vapours (2009) A Sleep & a Forgetting (2012) Ski Mask (2013)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	69/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Pitchfork Media	(7.9/10)
Prefix Magazine
Sputnikmusic
Paste

A Sleep & a Forgetting is the fourth studio album by indie rock band Islands. It was released on February 14, 2012 on ANTI-.

Nicholas Thorburn has called it his "strongest most cohesive record", a record that "deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming."

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69% based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"In a Dream It Seemed Real"	3:21
2.	"This Is Not a Song"	3:56
3.	"Never Go Solo"	4:45
4.	"No Crying"	3:05
5.	"Hallways"	2:54
6.	"Can't Feel My Face"	2:46
7.	"Lonely Love"	3:40
8.	"Oh Maria"	4:08
9.	"Cold Again"	3:19
10.	"Don't I Love You"	3:20
11.	"Same Thing"	2:32
12.	"Swallows" (Bonus Track)	3:07
13.	"Comes To Light" (Bonus Track)	3:17
14.	"Grey Funnel Line" (Bonus Track)	3:24

External links

• A Sleep & a Forgetting at Discogs (list of releases)