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Old 09-07-2014, 19:33
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If they get #2 that'll be great. Not many bands get that on their 12th album do they?

I don't hate Ed Sheeran either, I've ignored him up until this point! So not that offended by him being above them.
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Old 09-07-2014, 19:35
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I dunno - I feel like I'm being a bit thick here but I'm thoroughly underwhelmed. This album just doesn't do anything for me at all. Maybe I'm just not getting it and I'll catch on sooner or later, but from everyone else's reaction it seems like it's not them it's me?
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Old 09-07-2014, 19:44
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It wasn't as immediate as Rewind the Film for me but i like it more every time i play it
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Old 09-07-2014, 19:50
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Play Direct dispatched my copy to New Zealand on the 28 June. It still hasn't arrived. I went to two and the only two major record shops yesterday asking if the album was in. Got one "Who?". The album gets released in New Zealand on Friday!

Futurolgy. More like living in 1982. I'm going to email New Zealand Post today to vent my disappointment in their services.
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Old 09-07-2014, 23:39
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It's sounding reasonably good. I've only listened to it a few times and it hasn't blown me away, nor repulsed me in the same way "Postcards..." did.

There's some really good stuff on here. I'm liking "The View From Stow Hill"; "Europa..."; "Walk Me To The Bridge"; "Hugheskova" and "Let's Go To War". "Black Square" and "Misguided Missile" are alright.

The title track is total gash though. Live, it sounded like they were trying to be U2. On record it loses that epic overblown bluster and just sounds like Coldplay doing U2.

I'm not a fan of "Mayakovsky" just because it rips off "Seven Nation Army", and "Sex Power Love Money" sounds too ludicrous to me at the moment while "The Next Jet..." is boring.

At this point it's a fair solid 7 out of 10 album. They're continuing to restore my faith in them as a band. "Postcards..." was truly rock bottom as far as I'm concerned.
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Old 10-07-2014, 03:21
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For a band who gets little if any Canadian airplay, the Manics' 'Futurology' has ended up in a good spot on the iTunes Canada homepage.
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Old 10-07-2014, 09:13
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Underwelming. ....This would make a good EP. Overproduced and lacking in decent songs. They have had a run of 4 great albums but have hit a brick wall with this one. Is this the end of the road... i hope not but they need to release something decent quickly to have any relevance.

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Old 10-07-2014, 10:56
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What's interesting to me is that these albums are their post-'mass communication' approach, where they're supposedly doing what they want to do in full acceptance of the fact that they'll no longer achieve the commercial popularity they once had. Yet Futurology seems to be getting the best attention and reception in years; if this means that doing what they really want rather than trying to second guess what audiences want is just as, or more, popular they could have done it years ago, and held back some of the bombast of PFAYM.

Not that this is loads less bombastic...
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Old 10-07-2014, 11:43
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No song elimination thread yet? Or are people waiting to hear the bonus Japanese tracks before it kicks off?
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Old 10-07-2014, 13:06
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If anyone is interested, I reviewed it for The Music Fix. http://music.thedigitalfix.com/conte...rs-review.html
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Two brilliant reviews from two of the biggest Belgian newspapers.


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really really like the album, its grabbed in alot quicker than rewind the film, it doesnt sound anything like kraut rock to me but its brilliant as far as im concerned.
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Old 10-07-2014, 18:49
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Underwelming. ....This would make a good EP. Overproduced and lacking in decent songs. They have had a run of 4 great albums but have hit a brick wall with this one. Is this the end of the road... i hope not but they need to release something decent quickly to have any relevance.

2/5
I WILL cut this PFAYM-loving prick.

I have a slight suspicion the author of this might be a certain German journalist, as it is pretty much the exact same thing the reviewer of Futurology in German VISIONS magazine wrote. I've posted the entire review in the Newspaper/Magazine Appearances thread, but the gist of it was that, "after 4 excellent albums in a row," this one sounds too "mechanical" or artificial. Suppose "overproduced" is what he meant. And the reviewer for Musikexpress wrote that after the "'Richey-Edwards-memorial-album' JOURNAL FOR PLAGUE LOVERS (2009), which has met with a lukewarm reception in Germany, the three Welshmen made one of their best records (POSTCARDS FROM A YOUNG MAN) only a year later," and that "Next Jet" is one of the few songs on the album you'd actually want to listen to more than once.

So weird, the differences in opinion between pro-Futurologists and con-Futurologists couldn't be any more extreme.
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Old 10-07-2014, 19:49
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Initially I thought the track order was a bit messy, but getting to like it now. It's a bit like KYE in throwing a curveball early on (in that case with Wattsville Blues and Miss Europa Disco Dancer). Basically it goes bonkers from when Nina Hoss comes in to the end of Dreaming a City.
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Old 10-07-2014, 20:06
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The first half of the album is the strongest for me so far, it's all I keep listening to, but I think this is so I get used to the tracks and love them, then I'll concentrate on the 2nd half, then the demos and other new tracks
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