Formed in March last year by former Departure frontman David Jones and producer Luke Shoesmith, NewIslands' first six month's in existence seem to have run on fast forward.

Holed up in a studio housed in a barn in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the Midlands, fully formed songs began bursting out of them right from the very first recording session. Capitalising on this momentum, they recruited themselves a band - Thomas Neal, Raife Hacking and son of French singer Patti Lane, Bogart Giner - and quickly began performing live, heading out on their first UK tour by May, as well as picking up a slot at the Offset Festival and gigs supporting the likes of Dan Black and Miike Snow.

They're set to release their debut single, 'Out Of Time', in March. A simple pop song, put together with deceptive complexity and led by intertwined synth melodies and David's insistent vocals, it's exactly the sort of thing which has earned the band comparisons to Depeche Mode, Animal Collective and The Cure.

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