A Sleep & a Forgetting is the fourth studio album by indie rock band Islands. It was released on February 14, 2012 on ANTI-.[7]
Nicholas Thorburn has called it his "strongest most cohesive record",[8] a record that "deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming."[9]
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".[1]