Future Days (Remastered) - Can (2014)

“Damo Suzuki's last album with Can is a definite highpoint from the band's incredible ouvre. All the elements that make the band so timelss and radical sounding even now are here in abundance: experimentation with all manner of electronic and organic sound textures and atmospherics pinned down by Jaki Liebezeit's jawdropping rhythms and augmented by an advanced melodic sensibility. Future Days is for me the best album I made with Can," vocalist Damo Suzuki has said. ... Indeed, the four tracks on the German experimental rockers' fifth studio album synthesize everything they did weirdly well. Can could strip back for three minutes of skewered psychedelic pop (’Moonshake’) or split the difference between Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and Isaac Hayes's Hot Buttered Soul (’Spray’), or find new craters on the moon for ‘Bel Air,’ a lounge suite dizzying up the entire second side of the record. All of it is Can, and none of it is commonplace. -R.F. ...”

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