Future Generations (band)

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Future Generations
Origin New York, NY
Genres
Years active2011-present
LabelsFrenchkiss Records
MembersEddie Gore
Devon Sheridan
Mike Sansevere
Eric Grossman
Dylan Wells

Future Generations is an electro indie-pop band based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Biography

Future Generations was formed by Eddie Gore, Eric Grossman, and Mike Sansevere, who met the first week of their freshman year at Fordham University in Bronx, NY in 2011, [1] when they ran into each other by chance in their dorm building's shared practice room. [2] Gore met Devon Sheridan in line to buy tickets for a school dance their junior year and asked him to play bass in the band. [3] They recruited Dylan Wells from a Craigslist ad in 2016. [1] Currently, all five members live together in a four-bedroom apartment in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. [2]

Gore is the main songwriter and lyricist but all five members of the band contribute sounds, rhythms, and arrangements. [4] The quintet started out calling themselves "The Suits", but after they were contacted by another band with that name, they changed their name to Future Generations. [2]

Gore posted some of the band's songs online [3] where they were discovered by the label, Frenchkiss Records. [4] Frenchkiss put out their Polysun EP in 2014. [2] The eponymous debut album was released July 2016. [5] Atwood Magazine called the album "universally appealing" and said, of the single "Stars," "its catchy tune and fast-pace mask its hidden depth." [5] Popmatters said the single "Coast" "recalls the flawlessly nonchalant rock of Two Door Cinema Club and Future Generations’ Frenchkiss labelmates Passion Pit." [6]

With producer Justin Gerrish (Vampire Weekend, Hamilton Leithauser), [7] they recorded 11 songs in 11 days [4] for their second album, Landscape, which focuses on themes of love, loss, and perseverance. [1] The album was received positively by critics, with Blackbook taking note of the band's “lush synths, sumptuous harmonies and infectious hooks,” [8] Ones To Watch saying they "display a wealth of hooky melodies, which is immediately accessible for the listener at hand," [9] and Atwood Magazine calling Landscape "A proper, fully realized album... immersively warm, charmingly upbeat, thoughtfully engaging and sonically distinctive." [10] PopMatters called their single "Out Loud" "a hooky, carefree, sophisticated slice of synthpop." [11]

Discography

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