Album · Bear's Den
Islands by Bear's Den
Islands is an album by Bear's Den, released in 2014. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Above The Clouds Of Pompeii”, on 4 lists with a best position of #59.
Islands, from 2014, was the first full-length from Bear's Den, the London indie folk outfit built around vocalist and guitarist Andrew Davie and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Jones, with Joey Haynes rounding out the lineup at the time. It came out on Communion Music, and it sounds like a band in no hurry: close, hushed vocals, patient acoustic textures and slow-building swells that surge into full-throated folk rock before sinking back to a murmur.
The standout was "Above the Clouds of Pompeii", which put the band in the running for the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 2015. It set the template for everything after: four more studio albums, starting with Red Earth & Pouring Rain in 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Islands on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Above The Clouds Of Pompeii | 4 | #59 | – | 2014–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.