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How Long Gone

574. - Future Islands

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Future Islands is a band whose new album, People Who Aren't There Anymore, is out in January on 4AD. We spoke with Sam, their singer, about used puffer jackets, a punk rock museum in Las Vegas, Celine discovered Dimes Square, when they started taking a cut from merch sales, memoirs, living in New Orleans, a lot of knee talk, he seems to live in crab-adjacent cities, he has an old uncle whos also a performer, being 1/4 Filipino, opening for Morrissey, walking through the snow for soup, numbing the pain, which stocks he's lost money on, being addicted to anxiety, and their new record. instagram.com/futureislands twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to go and How long gone, Bean's being so weird. Let's focus, Jason. It's time to podcast. It's a fucking Tuesday in December or no November sorry

0:26.8

I'm jumping ahead almost I'm jumping I mean it practically feels like December I went we did it we did a our podcast this morning for full

0:36.4

transparency we're recording after we did our interview and it was at 8 a.m.

0:43.0

so that means I was I was walking the dogs at six

0:47.0

still kind of dark out freezing cold

0:50.0

freezing cold man it's it's freezing cold. It's actually cold here and I hope you I hope you took your nupsy out of out of storage for this week for this week.

1:00.8

Nupsy? That's a North face puffer jacket oh I don't have one I have I wear

1:07.2

arcterics yeah but you don't have you have California arcterics you have like a rain slicker and a light puffy.

1:15.0

Yeah, I'm actually eyeballing a vintage puffer right now that's real poofy, but it's kind of like a dark orange kind of like your sweater.

1:25.0

It's a great vibe but like you're not always in the mood to wear an orange

1:31.0

because I have an orange arcterics raincoat that I love, but it's like, you really

1:35.8

got to be in the mood to wear construction orange.

1:39.4

Blaze, Blaze, Blaze, no you're right.

1:41.5

I mean, Blaze, does it make your chest bigger? Because that's nice.

1:45.8

Any help that I can get my little be cut. My little be cut.

1:49.7

Where did you find this puffer? I'm not telling you my

1:55.4

fucking sources bitch ass I don't the secret shit I don't buy you for some reason

2:00.2

buying a used puffer feels insane to me actually but I'll buy anything else used I don't know why

2:05.2

because the body sweats and a cocoon sack in there you know there's there's decades of

2:15.0

moisture and toxins

2:19.4

decades of moisture lining the down feathers. Am I wrong?

2:20.3

No, you're not wrong, but I just hope you,

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