LANDSCAPE

The second full-length from Future Generations, Landscape emerged from the kind of playful creativity only possible among the closest collaborators. Five friends who all live together in Brooklyn, Future Generations brought Landscape to life by balancing their pop-minded songcraft with bursts of free-form experimentation: recording guitar riffs from the receiving end of a phone call, messing with a vintage synthesizer called the Fun Machine, building percussion tracks by sampling a batch of drum-circle recordings captured by Sansevere. So while the album's abundance of hooky melodies makes each song immediately catchy, Landscape unfolds with an intricacy of detail that reveals more nuance and depth with every new listen.??The follow-up to their 2016 self-titled LP, Landscape finds Future Generations matching that sonic exploration with a greater emotional intensity. Produced by Justin Gerrish (Vampire Weekend, Hamilton Leithauser), Landscape is also the first Future Generations release to feature their full lineup which aside from Gore includes Mike Sansevere (synthesizer, guitar, percussion), Eric Grossman (guitar), Devon Sheridan (bass), and Dylan Wells (percussion) as the latter two joined the band a few years after its' formation. Throughout the album, the band proves the power of their chemistry in songs like lead single All the Same, a track that builds a brilliant tension between its nostalgia-soaked synth lines and lyrics that perfectly channel pre-breakup disillusionment. A bravely honest look at longing for connection-and rejecting the emptiness of one-night stands-Suddenly draws inspiration from hip-hop in its sampled beats, an element offset by the song's shimmering synth and acoustic guitar. That hip-hop influence also informs the hypnotic rhythms of Out Loud, while Landscape mines its frenzied urgency from the unchecked fury of punk. And on I Never Knew I Was Lonely, Future Generations deliver one of the album's most chilling moments, shifting between stripped-bare vocals and brutal guitar work to beautifully unsettling effect.??Tracklist?Stranger?Landscape?Caught Me By Surprise?Suddenly?All The Same?Out Loud?Take Me There?Hurry Home?I Never Knew I Was Lonely?Tear Your Down?Incomplete