Seasons (Waiting on You)

"Seasons (Waiting on You)"
Single by Future Islands
from the album Singles
B-side"One Day"
ReleasedFebruary 4, 2014 (2014-02-04)
RecordedAugust 2013
StudioDreamland Studios
(Hurley, New York)
Genre
Length3:46
Label4AD
Songwriter(s)
  • William Cashion
  • Samuel T. Herring
  • J. Gerrit Welmers
Producer(s)Chris Coady
Future Islands singles chronology
"Tomorrow" / "The Fountain"
(2012) 		"Seasons (Waiting on You)"
(2014) 		"A Dream of You and Me"
(2015)
Music video
"Seasons (Waiting on You)" on YouTube

"Seasons (Waiting on You)" is a song by American synthpop band Future Islands. It is the opening track on their fourth studio album Singles, and was released as the album's lead single on February 4, 2014.[2] The song received much critical acclaim, topping The Village Voice's annual year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll[3] and also being named the best track of 2014 by publications such as NME,[4] Pitchfork,[5] and Spin.[6] In 2019, it was named the 34th best song of the 2010s by Pitchfork,[7] and was ranked 94th on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the 2010s.[8]

  1. ^ a b Treble Staff (May 11, 2020). "A History of Synth-Pop in 50 Essential Songs". Treble. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Vinyl was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "The Village Voice's 42nd Pazz & Jop Music Critics' Poll: The Last Word on the Year in Music (Singles)". The Village Voice. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  4. ^ "NME's Top 50 Tracks Of 2014". NME. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  5. ^ "The 100 Best Tracks of 2014". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  6. ^ "The 101 Best Songs of 2014". Spin. December 8, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  7. ^ "the 200 Best Tracks of the 2010s". Pitchfork. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  8. ^ Will Hermes; Brittany Spanos; Christian Hoard; Suzy Exposito; Charles Holmes; Claire Shaffer; Jon Freeman; Joseph Hudak; David Browne; Jon Dolan; Rob Sheffield; Joe Levy; Nick Catucci; Simon Vozick-Levinson; Andy Greene; Brenna Ehrlich; Brendan Klinkenberg; Hank Shteamer; Angie Martoccio; Jerry Portwood (December 4, 2019). "The 100 Best Songs of the 2010s". Rolling Stone.