The Future Is Your Past lands on February 2nd.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre have announced the release of a new album entitled The Future Is Your Past.
Helmed by singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Anton Newcombe, the San Francisco collective have become firmly established as a singular force in their creativity and proliferation within the psych rock sphere and its adjacent realms over three decades of activity. The Future Is Your Past is expected for arrival on February 2nd and marks the group’s twentieth full-length release, swiftly succeeding this year’s praised Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees. The forthcoming album’s release aligns with a previously announced UK tour that will see the infamous troupe perform in Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Nottingham, London and more.
Newcombe explains of their latest album,
“My son Wolfgang is very different to me, thank god, but we have so many things in common; dancing, making up songs, and vocalising strange combinations of words and ideas that make us laugh, or make sense to us in some meaningful way. At a certain point, I started writing down these words and random ideas to use as titles. Quite a few of the songs from this album, and from ‘Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees’ are in fact his ideas., including ‘Your Mind Is My Cafe’, and ‘The Future Is Your Past’. Both of these albums, and many more songs were written in Berlin at my studio during the pandemic. A song a day, written, recorded and shared on YouTube as a work in progress.
I felt like everything was so sad and hopeless, but I am not helpless. I decided to sing anthems to empower me, to remember to remember, to fight the beast until it dies, to give it everything you got because that’s all there is to give… these were not songs for covid times, for these times of war and crisis after crisis, these are songs for all time.”
View the album’s track list and revisit its recent preceding single ‘Fudge’ in advance below.
The Future Is Your Past
1 ‘Do Rainbows Have Ends’
2 ‘Nothing Can Stop The Sound’
3 ‘The Light Is about To Change’
4 ‘Fudge’
5 ‘Cross Eyed Gods’
6 ‘As The Carousel Swings’
7 ‘The Mother Of All Fuckers’
8 ‘All The Feels’
9 ‘Your Mind Is My Café’
10 ‘Stuck To Yous’
The Future Is Your Past releases on February 2nd via A Recordings Ltd. Pre-order the album on clear vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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