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Future Days is the fourth studio album by the German experimental rock group Can, released on 1 August 1973 by United Artists. It was the group's final album to feature vocalist Damo Suzuki, who subsequently left the band to become a Jehovah's Witness, and explores a more atmospheric sound than their previous releases.

Content

Music

On Future Days, Can foregrounds the ambient elements they had explored on previous albums, dispensing largely with traditional rock song structures and instead "creating hazy, expansive soundscapes dominated by percolating rhythms and evocative layers of keys". PopMatters wrote that "Future Days is driven by a coastal breeze, exuding a more pleasant, relaxed mood than anything the band had previously recorded."

Artwork

The album cover features the Greek letter Psi in the middle and the I Ching hexagram dǐng below the title. The surrounding graphics are based on the Jugendstil art style.

Some versions of the vinyl album have a slightly different cover in which the graphics are not embossed, or in which the lightly reflective gold tint is replaced by a flat yellow instead. These differences are also present on the CD releases.

Reception

Шаблон:Music ratings From contemporary reviews, Ian MacDonald of NME praised the album, opining it was "an immaculate piece of work, the best German rock record so far, apart from Faust", and concluded that it was "sheer good music and is perfectly easy for anyone with a pair of ears attached to their heads to get into and thoroughly enjoy. Forget the krautrock tag. Forget how you're supposed to react."Шаблон:Sfn Ray Fox-Cumming of Disc gave the album a negative review, declaring the album "attempts nothing that hasn't already been done, often to death, before" while finding "some of it is quite pretty, the music is well-played, nicely spaced and unscrambled, but even after half a dozen hearings I still found most of it went in one ear and straight out the other."Шаблон:Sfn NME ranked it the 11th best album of the year in 1974.

From retrospective reviews, AllMusic's Anthony Tognazzini called it "fiercely progressive, calming, complex, intense, and beautiful all at once" and "one of Can's most fully realized and lasting achievements." He also praised Suzuki's vocal performances - described as "all minimal texture and shading" - as being his "most inspired", and praised the track "Bel Air" as "a gloriously expansive piece of music that progresses almost imperceptibly, ending abruptly after exactly 20 minutes."

Legacy

Accolades for Future Days

Publications/Sources	Accolades	Year	Rank
Uncut	"200 Greatest Albums of All Time"	2016	121
Rolling Stone	"50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time"	2015	8
Tom Moon	"1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die"	2008	-
GQ	"The 100 Coolest Albums in the World Right Now!"	2005	70
Pitchfork	"Top 100 Albums of the 1970s"	2004	56
Stylus	"Top 101-200 Albums of All Time"	2004	160
Mojo	"The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made"	1995	62

Personnel

Can

• Holger Czukay – bass guitar, double bass
• Michael Karoli – electric guitar, violin
• Jaki Liebezeit – drums, percussion
• Irmin Schmidt – Farfisa organ and electric piano, electronics
• Damo Suzuki – vocals, percussion

References

Sources

• Шаблон:Cite web
• Шаблон:Cite web

External links

• Progarchives info & reviews on Future Days