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Peter Hammill - The Future Now (1978) {2007, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 4 Feb 2023 23:38:19

Peter Hammill - The Future Now (1978) {2007, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 358 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 150 Mb
Covers Included | 00:55:25 | RAR 5% Recovery
Art Rock, Progressive Rock | Charisma / Virgin / Toshiba EMI Ltd. #VJCP-68797

The Future Now is the seventh studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1978. It was the first solo album Hammill released following the 1978 breakup of his band Van der Graaf Generator, although he had released numerous solo albums while VdGG were active. The album contains twelve short songs, several in the new wave style of VdGG's last studio album, The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome. The album cover shows a set of photographs by Brian Griffin, portraying Peter Hammill with half of his moustache and beard shaven. "If I Could" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.

The Future Now is one of Peter Hammill's best and most disconcerting albums since the mid-'70s. Filled with beautiful piano ballads, strange experiments, and anthemic rock songs, it stands as multi-faceted as the artist – who, incidentally, shaved half of his facial hair for the eye-catching cover shot. Hammill has never mastered the art of the opening track, and this album marks no exception: "Pushing Thirties" is a bland, surprise-less rock song. Once you pass that gate though, wonders succeed one another in your ears. In the ballad department, "If I Could" shines like a diamond. This beautiful love song about a man who will never be able to keep his wife from leaving would remain a regular feature in Hammill's concerts for the next 25 years, but no later recording matches this studio version. "The Mousetrap (Caught In)" – the story of an actor performing the same play for the last 30 years – is another highlight. Unstable fuzz guitar (reminiscent of Robert Fripp, although he is not credited as a guest) give "Trappings" and "Mediaevil" a strange atmosphere, while backward vocals turn "The Cut" into the most sinister song in Hammill's book since "German Overalls." "A Motor-Bike in Africa" combines electronic percussion, studio effects, a mantra-like narrative, and a pinch of English humor to uncertain results. Amidst all these good songs is another gemstone, although it has not been polished yet; "The Future Now" is too lyrical in this incarnation, too tamed and polite, although it still has the power to send shivers down your spine with its imperative chorus. The Future Now is an artist album. It requires dedication but rewards a hundredfold.

~ François Couture, All Music

Discogs

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Track List:

01. Pushing Thirty [0:04:21.02]
02. The Second Hand [0:03:29.02]
03. Trappings [0:03:33.57]
04. The Mousetrap (Caught in) [0:04:06.49]
05. Energy Vampires [0:02:56.71]
06. If I Could [0:04:42.41]
07. The Future Now [0:04:14.01]
08. Still in the Dark [0:03:40.66]
09. Mediaevil [0:03:06.61]
10. A Motor-Bike in Afrika [0:03:11.25]
11. The Cut [0:04:21.24]
12. Palinurus (Castaway) [0:04:09.63]
Bonus Tracks
13. If I Could [0:04:41.23]
14. The Mousetrap (Caught in) [0:04:50.22]

Personnel:
Peter Hammill - guitars, vocals, keyboards, harmonica, electronics
David Jackson - saxophone (1, 2, 12)
Graham Smith - violin (5, 6, 12)

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.5 from 20. February 2020

EAC extraction logfile from 10. October 2020, 9:23

Peter Hammill / The Future Now [VJCP-68797]

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