Islets in Pink Polypropylene is the debut studio album by English visual artist and experimental composer Anthony Manning, released on 1 December 1994 on Irdial Discs.
It is best known for the intense and unorthodox method of music sequencing that resulted in the album's creation, as well as its unique sound achieved by its microtonal tuning system.
Islets in Pink Polypropylene was created entirely on a Roland R-8, despite its incapability of being a synthesiser, through an unorthodox and complex process that according to Manning took "many weeks per piece".
Manning "happened to read a magazine article about Christo's "Surrounded Islands" installation [...] There was something about a particular cluster of words within a random sentence that seemed pleasing and somehow appropriate.
The Wire abstractly praised the album, calling it "a liquidy headbox of aural shapes, whose forms hardly change yet seem to encompass infinite viscosity within them, like rainbow pools of oil on water.