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The Future's Void
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

  • Summary: The second full-length release for Erika M. Anderson was produced with Leif Shackleford.
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I can't believe all they say It doesn't seem like it was only yesterday When you wondered, I run Super highway There should be a law about it When... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. The 405
    Apr 7, 2014
    90
    The term 'masterpiece' is thrown around a lot.
  2. NOW Magazine
    Apr 3, 2014
    80
    A huge part of her appeal is how authentically she manages to channel the intensity of adolescent angst, which makes lines that should be cringe-inducing feel too real to critique.
  3. Drowned In Sound
    Apr 2, 2014
    80
    The music operates less as an end in itself and more as a counterpoint to the keening, whispering, screeching, gasping voice-as-expression-of-humanity: within the silicon maze, she suggests, there’s a ghost trying to get out.
  4. DIY Magazine
    Apr 7, 2014
    80
    The album is an obvious step-up right from the start.
  5. Spin
    Apr 10, 2014
    80
    EMA has crafted a wide-eyed, open-eared, reasonably horrified, digi-noise drone-folk treatise about the soul-sucking, privacy-wrecking qualities of online life.
  6. 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.
  7. Pretty Much Amazing
    Apr 7, 2014
    58
    For The Future’s Void, she’s traded in the tarnished grace and drug-ravaged ten-mile stare of her past life, but it’s not always such a fair deal for the listener.

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  1. 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.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.… Expand
  2. 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 allThis 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
  4. 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 aboutI 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.… Expand

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