"Foam Island", the third studio LP from Darkstar, is a beautiful contemporary electronic pop album, dealing with powerful themes of ambition and hope against the odds in the 21st century.
Since their debut, Darkstar have been an influential force in the UK’s electronic scene. With the release of "Foam Island" they prove, as we move into the second half of the decade, that they remain at the cutting edge of artists pushing its form. "We wanted to talk about life for people in their late teens and early 20s in 2015, but avoid that ‘grim-up-north’ clichéd perception," Young explains. "We wanted a full picture, not just something that was heavy on the heart, but something that reflected a positive as well as an ambivalent side to how young people feel right now. These themes should be recognizable to anyone in the world right now."
Similarly, thematically it cycles through motifs of disillusionment, political isolation and apathy, alongside hope, happiness and pride. It creates a world in which there is a definite stoic comfort in routine, tradition and community, but in which there is also anger at a lack of opportunity for personal progression and a lack of investment in their collective futures. Final writing on the album took place in May 2015, with the lyrics to closing track ‘Days Burn Blue’ written as the UK election votes were being counted, and ’Cuts’ pieced together in the weeks following. 
With "Foam Island" Darkstar have created an album which could only have been made in 2015; an album with a voice that encourages a generation to stand up and be counted.