Grand Island er plateaktuelle nå på nyåret, og slipper sin 3. plate 25. Januar. Den forrige platen ble nominert til spellemannspris i 2009, og solgte bra i tillegg til meget god rullering på radio.
 
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Dette skriver bandet om seg selv på sine nettsider:
No, their name does not refer to the biggest of Canaries. And even thought there is a pleasantville in Nebraska by the name of Grand Island that is not it either. -Too far west, for these boys are inbreed Appalachians, or so they seem to suggest: their music and message is clearly verging on madness. Amiss are norms, order and respect for expectations. Loath of narrative logic, temperance and a structure of recognition Grand Island’s dual pair of brothers -with an unrelated fifth member constituting the genetic freak- pour into the cauldron of their music frantic banjos, jungle beats and primal veils, blood-line precision, crystal-meth energy and general hysteria.
The blend is a mutated and boosted meta-version of the innermost musical madness of America’s eastern mountains. This is how they like to present themselves anyhow.

They also confess a hint of influence from such entities as Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa, and this might be a better indicator of the state of mind we are here talking about. For even if the sound is that of the convoluted mountain, the state of mind is very far from inbreed stupidity. Zappa’s superfluity of ideas and arrogance of musical complexity is a lot closer.



http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Island