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The Future Will Come
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: DFA
Release Date: 14 April 2009
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie, Electronic
Summary
This is the second album for the electronic artist from Rhode Island.
Also By This Artist: Less Than Human
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly
The Future Will Come is, by and large, a fun ride, all squiggly synth wah-wahs, airy vocal coos, and funked-up drums that beg for--and sometimes, as on the giddy closer 'Happy House,' deliver--more cowbell.
Read Full Review >NOW Magazine
Some of the 80s references take a few listens until they stop sounding goofy, and MacLean’s deadpan vocals occasionally grate next to Whang’s light and floating tone, but once your ears adjust, there’s a lot to appreciate.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
Maclean is clearly a scholar of electro/disco and each number is exquisitely arranged and executed, every synth sound modulates just so as it fades, every reference point lovingly rendered and the whole thing is buffed with a contemporary polish that eschews none of the off-kilter humanity that keeps disco delightfully distinct from its explicitly mechanised dancefloor cousins.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
The frequent presence of full-time collaborator Nancy Whang's voice on many of the songs adds an extra element of melody that largely sees the record's intention true to the end.
Read Full Review >Mojo
The Future Will Come's title seems presciently loaded, its content primed for a mainstream meet'n'greet. [May 2009, p.108]
musicOMH.com
The Future Will Come is the kind of album you could listen to loudly in a club, or at home with some headphones and it would suit either. Welcome back intelligent dance music, we've missed you.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
It’s Dionysian disco: dynamic, decadent and utterly brilliant.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
The Future Will Come is still a mostly solid as just about any full-length release on DFA, and if some of the best ideas die too soon or don’t go far enough, at least they appear at all.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
Every track on The Future Will Come that hasn't already appeared as a single last year is a relatively short and succinct piece of work; think a bunch of radio edits instead of the 12" mixes. The good news is that brevity keeps some of these tracks from getting stretched thin.
Read Full Review >Spin
Add the pipes of Nancy Whang on most tracks--giving Future a boy-girl dynamic--and there's a distinct suggestion that the Juan MacLean might just become the Human League after all.
Read Full Review >The New York Times
Mr. MacLean’s attempt at naked vulnerability, on a ballad called 'Human Disaster,' may be this album’s biggest misstep. But at least that song dissolves right into a near-perfect closer, 'Happy House,' which was released as a single last year.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
The Future Will Come blooms incrementally, driven from the ground by the grittiest keyboard performance heard on a dance album in some time.
Read Full Review >Dusted Magazine
While MacLean isn’t a self-conscious wit, he’s never seemed too invested in trying to not sound silly, and it doesn’t cost him. Sometimes, when the darkness gets heavy, his limitations add a much-appreciated levity. As Brody Stevens might say, “Enjoy it.”
Read Full Review >Filter
Nothing on this album quite lives up to the previous "Give Me Every Little Thing," but in the end, Maclean does make the case that he should continue hanging around the mixer for many years to come. [Winter 2009, p.100]
Q Magazine
Tracks such as the arresting Human League-meets-Georgio-Moroder fusion 'One Day' and the gloriously uninhibited finale 'Happy House' remian an irresistible invitation onto the dancefloor. [May 2009, p.113]
Uncut
Neither MacLean nor vocal foil Nancy Whang has a strong enough voice for pop. Instead it's the surging 10-minute disco epics 'Tonight' and 'Happy House; that impress. [May 2009, p.89]
Urb
Taken as a whole, the album does have a certain cohesiveness that’s lacking in most dance “albums” but many of the tracks fail to break new or interesting ground, and it leaves one wishing their potential of last summer could’ve been realized.
Read Full Review >The Guardian
For much of The Future Will Come, however, Maclean frustratingly boxes himself into the synth-pop format of the Human League.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
After missing the mark with his robotic, soulless 2005 debut, Juan comes to life on this follow–up, giving us stretched–out, club–wrecking grooves.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
This is just the album to inspire you to turn your bedroom into a disco. [Spring 2009, p.79]
PopMatters
The Future Will Come sticks too closely to a familiar middle ground that might be functional for the dance floor but ultimately offers diminishing returns in other settings.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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