| New Future City Radio |
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| Released | July 28, 2023 (2023-07-28) |
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| Length | 39:42 |
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| Label | International Anthem |
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New Future City Radio is a collaborative studio album by American musicians Damon Locks and Rob Mazurek. It was released on July 28, 2023 through International Anthem.[1]
Background
The album is composed of eighteen songs in the structure of a mixtape consisting of radio sounds, snippets of instrumental tracks and voiceovers.[1] It is the first collaborative album by Locks and Mazurek, who collaborated on several other projects including Exploding Star Orchestra. The album's first single, "Yes", was released on May 23, 2023, alongside a music video directed by Locks and animated by Rob Shaw.[2]
Reception
Pitchfork described the album as imagining "a clandestine broadcast from a not-so-distant future, playing up pirate radio's utopian impulse in order to raise alarm bells about the present."[1] Uncut Magazine noted that "the whole album, across a wildly varied and genuinely unique 18 tracks, feels like tuning in to some kind of revolutionary post-apocalyptic radio station."[4] AllMusic stated that New Future City Radio "addresses important questions about notions of community in the 21st century. It offers possibilities to learn, a collective resistance to injustice and oppression, and the potential to learn how to disseminate information, among themselves and over unregulated radio waves."[3]
Track listing
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| 1. | "5-4-3-2-1" | 0:22 |
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| 2. | "Yes!" | 2:15 |
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| 3. | "The Sun Returns" | 2:27 |
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| 4. | "Breeze of Time" | 2:39 |
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| 5. | "Your Name Gonna Ring the Bell" | 1:07 |
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| 6. | "New Future" | 1:07 |
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| 7. | "Droids!" | 2:18 |
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| 8. | "The Concord Hour" | 5:08 |
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| 9. | "Future City" | 0:23 |
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| 10. | "10mins Past the Hour" | 0:17 |
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| 11. | "Support the Youth (With Sound)" | 1:19 |
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| 12. | "The Beat" | 0:55 |
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| 13. | "Las Niñas Estan Escuchando [The Children Are Listening]" | 0:19 |
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| 14. | "Flitting Splits Reverb Adage" | 3:56 |
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| 15. | "Twilight Shimmer" | 9:53 |
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| 16. | "Suspense in the Grip of Suspense" | 3:58 |
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| 17. | "Polaris Radio" | 1:10 |
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| 18. | "Drop" | 0:09 |
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| Total length: | 39:42 |
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Personnel
- Damon Locks – vocals, sampler & album art[2]
- Rob Mazurek – vocals, trumpet, sampler, synthesizer, flute
- Mauricio Takara – percussion (tracks 12, 14)
- Roberto Carlos Lange – vocals (track 14)
- Brandi Augustus – vocals (track 6)
- Rosetta Carr – vocals (track 3)
- Andres Hernandez – vocals (track 8)
- Alain Clapham – vocals (track 10)
- Brenda Hernandez – vocals (track 13)
- Dave Vettraino – recording & engineering
- David Allen – mastering
References
- ^ a b c d e Blackwell, Matthew (July 28, 2023). "Damon Locks / Rob Mazurek: New Future City Radio Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ a b Sacher, Andrew (May 23, 2023). "Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek announce new LP New Future City Radio, share "Yes!"". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ a b Jurek, Thom. "New Future City Radio - Damon Locks, Rob Mazur..." AllMusic. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ "September 2023 issue". Uncut Magazine. p. 31.
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