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There’s a new band in Bend called Isles and they’re pretty dang good.

They’ve only played a handful of shows in town so far— most recently at a Rise Up fund raiser at TBD Loft. But with recorded music on the way this summer, these guys are ready to make a splash.

They play VERY ambient beach rock, much like that of San Francisco’s Tycho and it’s quite moving. Their name for it is “Pacific soul.” There is also a touch of avant garde jazz in the style of Balmorhea.

Check out the trailer for their upcoming album below as well as a video from that First Friday Rise Up benefit show.

This type of music is a very welcome addition to our local music scene. Keep checking BENT for more on when you can catch these guys live.

This article appears in Feb 21-27, 2013.

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Bend Band Isles, Set to Make Waves

by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 27, 2013

<h1>Bend Band Isles, Set to Make Waves</h1> <p class="byline">by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 27, 2013</p> <p><div class="blogImageLeft"><img src="https://media2.fdncms.com/bend/imager/bend-band-isles-set-to-make-waves/u/original/2220595/1361986260-isles.jpg" alt="isles.jpg" title="" width="300" height="301" /></div> <p>There's a new band in Bend called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/islesmusic" target="_blank">Isles</a> and they're pretty dang good. </p> <p>They've only played a handful of shows in town so far— most recently at a Rise Up fund raiser at TBD Loft. But with recorded music on the way this summer, these guys are ready to make a splash. </p> <p>They play VERY ambient beach rock, much like that of San Francisco's Tycho and it's quite moving. Their name for it is "Pacific soul." There is also a touch of avant garde jazz in the style of Balmorhea. </p> <p>Check out the trailer for their upcoming album below as well as a video from that First Friday Rise Up benefit show.</p> <p>This type of music is a very welcome addition to our local music scene. Keep checking <strong>BENT</strong> for more on when you can catch these guys live. </p> </p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/bend-band-isles-set-to-make-waves-2220591/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=18132&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/bend-band-isles-set-to-make-waves-2220591/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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