Ezra Vancil recorded “Island” in an East Texas wooden structure, miles from any coastline, which feels exactly right for a song about displacement and yearning.
Vancil has spent years mining his own wreckage—addiction, divorce, the gray territories of depression—and transforming that material into Americana that resists easy categorization. “Island” represents something different in his catalog: the second offering from the double album Morning & Midnight, it trades direct confession for something hazier, less anchored.
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The lyrics circle around moments that resist capture, love that exists in the rearview mirror, the persistent sense that we’re always half a step behind our own lives. It’s the kind of melancholy that tastes sweet rather than bitter, the recognition that loss and beauty occupy the same coordinates.
*The song was submitted via SubmitHub. The editorial decision was made independently.
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