| A Sleep & a Forgetting | ||||
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| Studio album by Islands | ||||
| Released | February 14, 2012 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 47:34 | |||
| Label | ANTI- | |||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| 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."
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".