Watch Future Islands’ Intense, Dramatic, Amazing Conan Performance

Watch Future Islands’ Intense, Dramatic, Amazing Conan Performance

You probably don’t need me to tell you this, but Future Islands are one of the great must-see bands out there on the late-night live-performance circuit. Last night — a few days after they released their excellent new album The Far Field, and a few weeks after they performed “Ran” on The Tonight Show — they did musical-guest duties on Conan, howling through their single “Cave.” For some reason, the band played in dim, vision-obscuring lighting on the show. But you could still get a look at Samuel T. Herring, an absolutely intense and magnetic frontman who pulled his best hardcore-screamer moves and did things with his voice that he never tried on the song’s recorded version. Conan to Herring: “You seemed to mean that!” Watch it below.

The Far Field is out now on 4AD.

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