Vapors

Vapors (or vapours) may refer to:

Vapours (album)

Vapours is the third studio album by Montreal-based Indie rock band, Islands. It was released on September 22, 2009. Talking to Pitchfork, Diamonds told how he stripped away many of the layers present on the previous Islands album, 2008's Arm's Way. "I needed to withdraw from overblown metaphors and filling every possible sonic space," said Diamonds. "So this record is just made up of sequenced programming, synths, drum machines, guitars, and real bass. And an electric sitar." In this album, Nick "Diamonds" is now going by his real name "Nick Thorburn" and original drummer Jamie Thompson returns to the band.

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Vapours (disease)

In archaic usage, the vapours (or vapors) is any of certain mental or physical states, such as hysteria, mania, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, lightheadedness, fainting, flush, withdrawal syndrome, mood swings, or PMS, ascribed primarily to women and thought to be caused by internal emanations. This is related to the similar concept female hysteria. Vapours were considered to be the female equivalent to melancholy found in men .

The word "vapours" was used to describe a depressed or hysterical nervous condition. Today, the phrase "a case of the vapors" is most often used either melodramatically or for comedic effect.

Victorian era

In the Victorian era, a variety of conditions which affected women were referred to as "vapours." Women's tight corsets squeezed their internal organs; this was believed to be cause of "the vapours."

A description of someone having "a case of the vapors" was sometimes used for a person in a state of emotional agitation.

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