• Record Label: Wichita
  • Release Date: Sep 27, 2005
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Bianchi's not much for such subtleties, emotional or rhetorical, which may suggest he'll have as much lovelorn electro-symphonic melodrama to recount on future albums as on those past and present.
  2. It's far from a poor record - the sole problem is that a number of songs do blur together, forming more of an aural whitewash than the technicolour trip some had predicted.
  3. Under The Radar
    40
    This feels like a record that should move the listener, yet its complete lack of conviction makes this almost impossible. [#11, p.115]
  4. Q Magazine
    60
    Should go down well with listeners who like their singers to take break-ups badly. [Nov 2005, p.125]
  5. Past Presents the Future falters between a coalesced pop sound and its pristine fragments.
  6. Bianchi doesn’t seem to be traveling down any new paths.
  7. Mojo
    40
    The songs are so wordy, the album so one-paced that it soon begins to sag. [Dec 2005, p.105]
  8. Alternative Press
    40
    Bianchi's hackneyed lyrics... often overshadow the music's subtle pleasures. [Oct 2005, p.170]
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. AmandaI.
    Sep 6, 2007
    10
    It just doesn't get any better. genius. Pure genius.
  2. joes
    Jul 11, 2006
    1
    meh
  3. Mef
    Jan 9, 2006
    10
    Same great Her Space Holiday sounds we've come to know and love, but this time he takes it to a new level.