Futureworld

by Trans Am

Futureworld cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 March 1999
  • Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 47:46
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Fred Erskine, Jonathan Kreinik

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Heavily expanding their rhythmic, post-rock foundations, the trio deeply embraced analog synthesizers and vocoders on their fourth LP, leaning heavily into a retro-futuristic aesthetic. The seamless blending of motorik drum patterns with heavily processed, robotic vocals established a distinctly mechanized, dystopian sound palette.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, electronic, instrumental, digital, motorik

Tracklist

  1. 1999 (1:37)
  2. Television Eyes (5:02)
  3. Futureworld (7:02)
  4. City in Flames (3:55)
  5. Am Rhein (5:24)
  6. Cocaine Computer (4:10)
  7. Runners Standing Still (3:45)
  8. Futureworld II (3:50)
  9. Positron (6:17)
  10. Sad and Young (6:40)

Credits

  • Nathan Means - band [trans am]
  • Phil Manley - band [trans am]
  • Sebastian Thomson - band [trans am]
  • Karaoke Hustler - songwriter [songs written by]
  • Julian Thomson - saxophone [sax]
  • Fred Erskine - trumpet

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