title: A Sleep & a Forgetting
text: # A Sleep & a Forgetting
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Metacritic | 69/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) |
  | Prefix Magazine | |
  | Sputnikmusic | |
  | Paste | |
  
  A Sleep & a Forgetting is the fourth studio album by indie rock band Islands. It was released on February 14, 2012 on ANTI-.
  
  Nicholas Thorburn has called it his "strongest most cohesive record", a record that "deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming."
  
  ## Reception
  
  At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69% based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
  
  