A Sleep & a Forgetting
# 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".

