Future Perfect (Autolux album)

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Future Perfect
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 26, 2004 (2004-10-26)
Studio
Genre
Length51:53
Label
Producer T Bone Burnett
Autolux chronology
Demonstration
(2001)
Future Perfect
(2004)
Transit Transit
(2010)
Singles from Future Perfect
  1. "Here Comes Everybody"
    Released: April 2005 [1]

Future Perfect is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Autolux. It was released on October 26, 2004 by DMZ and RED Ink Records. [2] [3] The album was produced by musician and DMZ co-founder, T Bone Burnett, and was primarily recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles.

Contents

DMZ released Future Perfect on vinyl as a two-LP set, which later went out of print. After the label's demise, Autolux reissued the album themselves in 2009 (on their own label Autolux Music Entertainment) on one 180-gram LP, [4] [5] and again in 2015 (also on their own label, now renamed The Autolux Empire) as a two-LP set. [6] [7]

Musical style

Alternative Press described Future Perfect as an album of noise pop and psychedelic rock music. [8] [9] John D. Luerssen of AllMusic said that the album fuses the "guitar blur" of shoegaze with indie rock elements reminiscent of the music of Sonic Youth and Ivy. [10]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Alternative Press 5/5 [9]
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [12]
Pitchfork 8.3/10 [13]
Tiny Mix Tapes 4.5/5 [14]
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Reviewing Future Perfect for Pitchfork , Peter Macia found that T Bone Burnett's " laissez-faire " production complemented Autolux's "intense dynamic", allowing the band "to speak for themselves". [13] Macia said of their performance on "Turnstile Blues": "In the first 10 seconds of the album opener, Carla Azar shames most every beat-maker with her ridiculous Liebezeit-cum-Bonham percussion. Azar's sturdy and creative drumming, provides the thrust of Greg Edwards' heavily reverbed and distorted riffs. Meanwhile, Eugene Goreshter sings whispery lullabies of escape and alienation, and his rumbling bass rattles the brain." [13]

In 2016, Pitchfork ranked Future Perfect as the 44th best shoegaze album of all time. [16]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Autolux (Carla Azar, Greg Edwards and Eugene Goreshter)

No.TitleLength
1."Turnstile Blues"5:40
2."Angry Candy"4:45
3."Subzero Fun"3:56
4."Sugarless"5:22
5."Blanket"4:49
6."Great Days for the Passenger Element"5:20
7."Robots in the Garden"2:05
8."Here Comes Everybody"5:17
9."Asleep at the Trigger"4:45
10."Plantlife"4:12
11."Capital Kind of Strain"5:42
Total length:51:53

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [3]

Autolux

Production

Design

Charts

Chart (2004)Peak
position
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [17] 16

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