Autolux – Future Perfect
Released in 2004, on Full Time Hobby
A non-new (but neither old) record this time. They are mentioned in Questionable Content (my favourite webcomic) AND they opened for Queens of the Stone Age a few times (my favourite band, maybe), so they can’t be bad, huh?
(That’s a rhetorical question, but if a band fulfils these two factors + has a cool sounding name, it’s considered to be worth a try for me.)
That’s a whole lot of brackets in barely a few sentences.
They are worth a try! Yeyy! Internet media (wiki…) classifies them mostly as shoegaze and yeah, maybe it’s so. So you get these distorted guitars and effected sounds and all, which is something I like. By the way, if I have to compare Autolux to another band, it’d be Transmissions-era Flaming Lips. Future Perfect’s opening track, Turnstile Blues, reminds me of Transmissions’ last song, Slow Nerve Action: amazing distorted drums, that is!
Nevertheless, this record is quite original and unique on it’s own. It’s a perfect mix of various moods. You get hard and powerful songs (Robots in the Garden, a personal favourite, with a good simple riff), but there are some laid-back ones too. A little bit of this, a little bit of that… Oh, and did I mention that they have two vocalists? Maybe I’ve mentioned this a few times already, but I love a band with more than one vocalist. This time it’s a guy and the drummer girl.
Maybe it’s the result of this mixed style: Future Perfect is best listened as a whole. There are some outstanding tracks, but mostly they prove big together. 50 minutes of interesting guitar-based music. Get this one somehow.
~ Final score: 8,3/10
One thing: I don’t think they’ll come up with something better than this. But, whatever, I can listen this one over and over again. Keep it sugarless!
