The Future's Void
by EMA
  • Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: Apr 8, 2014
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 26
  3. Negative: 1 out of 26
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  1. jyo_tirmaya
    May 31, 2014
    10
    This album is very hip-hypnotic. It's the kind of album that I can get into from beginning to end. It shifts moods and beats and it is all very well done. Don't know what Pitchfork means about three of the middle songs which puts EMA into industrial mode ala Nine Inch Nails bringing the album down big time. A couple of those songs are my favorites reminding me of the work pj harvey did onThis album is very hip-hypnotic. It's the kind of album that I can get into from beginning to end. It shifts moods and beats and it is all very well done. Don't know what Pitchfork means about three of the middle songs which puts EMA into industrial mode ala Nine Inch Nails bringing the album down big time. A couple of those songs are my favorites reminding me of the work pj harvey did on her "To Bring You My Love" album (1995). I like whatever lyrics I can make out as I don't have the lyrics on paper buying it on iTunes, but I do like what I can make out. For me, there are some meaningful lyrics on this album which EMA sings very nicely. She does everything on this album - rocks out, does softer songs, has great beats and the nod to Nine Inch Nails is done well and she makes it all her own. Definitely an album I'll still be listening to and going back to within the span of my life which EMA says "we're only in this world for a short time." Bravo!… Collapse
  2. adhamhany
    Apr 14, 2014
    8
    I like this more than her debut, which is still a good album. This is more emotionally resonant to me, thanks to it's great lyrics about internet and society. The music and vocal performances are just as great, too.
  3. danceordie
    Apr 8, 2014
    10
    The Future's Void is all Erika M. Anderson. Lyrically, the album is very based in post-internet and, sonically, the most daring since Yeezus. Album of the year contender without doubt.

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Dusted Magazine
    Jul 30, 2014
    80
    Past Life Martyred Saints was a ferociously personal record in a way that people responded to, but The Future’s Void is just as intense, even though it takes on almost entirely new subject matter and methods.
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  2. PopMatters
    Apr 25, 2014
    80
    It simultaneously aims for your head, your ears and occasionally your heart and at times even hits all three. If that’s not the sign of vital, invigorating music, I don’t know what is.
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  3. Mojo
    Apr 23, 2014
    80
    Timely stuff. [May 2014, p.88]
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