Released August 1973 Length 41:45 Artist Can Label United Artists Records | Recorded 1973 Producer Can Release date August 1973 | |
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Future Days
(1973) Soon Over Babaluma
(1974) Genres Krautrock, Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Ambient music, Experimental rock Similar Can albums, Krautrock albums, Other albums | ||
Future Days is the fifth studio album by the German experimental rock group Can, originally released in 1973. It is the last Can album to feature Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki.
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Content
On Future Days, the band employs more of an ambient sound than on their previous efforts, especially on the title track and the twenty-minute "Bel Air". The latter of these has been described by critics as being gloriously expansive and Can's most impressionistic song, with "an almost painterly sense of blended colors and landscapes."
Album cover
The album cover shows a Psi sign in the middle (drawn in the same style as the font used for the cover) and the I Ching symbol Ting/the Cauldron below the title. The surrounding graphics are based on the Jugendstil artstyle.
Some versions of the vinyl album have a slightly different cover in which the graphics don't have a light emboss or in which the lightly reflective gold tint is replaced by a flat yellow instead. These differences are also present on the CD releases. Even though not all versions of the covers are fully identical, the tracks do not differ on any release version whatsoever.
Legacy
The album was ranked number 8 on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time list. Pitchfork named it the 56th greatest album of the 1970s. In 1995 Mojo also named it the 62nd greatest album of all time.
Track listing
All tracks written by Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki.
Personnel
Songs
1Future Days9:30
2Spray8:29
3Moonshake3:04