The Future Is Your Past is the twentieth studio album by American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on February 10, 2023 through A Records.
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| Released | February 10, 2023 | |||
| Studio | Berlin, Germany | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock[1] | |||
| Length | 39:15 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | A Records | |||
| Producer | Anton Newcombe | |||
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Reception
editAccording to the review aggregator Metacritic, The Future Is Your Past received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 from five critic scores.[2] Writing for Clash Music, Nick Roseblade gave this album an 8 out of 10, writing that "every song is absolutely fantastic" and calling it the band's best album in many years and continuing that it "feels like the start of a golden age of The Brian Jonestown Massacre".[1] John Aizlewood of Mojo scored this release 3 out of 5 stars, praising individual tracks, but complaining that the album contains filler.[3] An 8.0 out of 10 was given by The Spill Magazine's Ljubinko Zivkovic, stating that the songs "sound like a band at their most potent".[4] Dan Gourlay of Under the Radar wrote that this album "embraces a multitude of styles and genres without ever allowing itself to be pigeonholed by any particular one" and rated it an 8 out of 10.[5]
Track listing
edit- "Do Rainbows Have Ends" – 3:23
- "Nothing Can Stop the Sound" – 3:29
- "The Light Is About to Change" – 4:25
- "Fudge" – 4:31
- "Cross Eyed Gods" – 3:21
- "As the Carousel Swings" – 4:58
- "The Mother of All Fuckers" – 4:49
- "All the Feels" – 3:09
- "Your Mind Is My Cafe" – 2:26
- "Stuck to Yous" – 4:44
Personnel
editThe Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Hákon Aðalsteinsson – guitar
- Anton Newcombe – lead vocals, guitar
- Uri Rennert – drums
Additional personnel
- Andrea Wright – mixing
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Roseblade, Nick (February 8, 2023). "The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Future Is Your Past". Reviews. Clash Music.
- ^ "The Future Is Your Past by The Brian Jonestown Massacre Reviews and Tracks – Metacritic". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. n.d. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
- ^ Aizlewood, John (March 2023). Bulley, Jenny (ed.). "Filter Albums". Mojo Filter. Mojo. No. 352. p. 92. ISSN 1351-0193.
- ^ Zivkovic, Ljubinko (February 17, 2023). "Spill Album Review: The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Future Is Your Past". The Spill Magazine.
- ^ Gourlay, Dan (March 30, 2023). "Brian Jonestown Massacre: The Future Is Your Past (A Recordings)". Music. Under the Radar.
External links
edit- The Future Is Your Past at Discogs (list of releases)
- The Future Is Your Past at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
