Future Days


Future Days is the fourth studio album by the German experimental rock group Can, originally released in 1973. It is the last Can album to feature Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki.

Content

Music

On Future Days, the band foregrounds the ambient elements they had begun exploring on previous efforts, dispensing largely with traditional rock song structures and instead "creating hazy, expansive soundscapes dominated by percolating rhythms and evocative layers of keys." PopMatters wrote that "It feels as if Future Days is driven by a coastal breeze, exuding a more pleasant, relaxed mood than anything the band had previously recorded."

Artwork

The album cover shows a Psi sign in the middle and the I Ching symbol ding/the cauldron below the title. The surrounding graphics are based on the Jugendstil artstyle.
Some versions of the vinyl album have a slightly different cover in which the graphics don't have a light emboss or in which the lightly reflective gold tint is replaced by a flat yellow instead. These differences are also present on the CD releases.
Even though not all versions of the covers are fully identical, the tracks do not differ on any release version whatsoever.

Legacy

The album was ranked number 8 on Rolling Stones 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time list. Pitchfork named it the 56th greatest album of the 1970s. In 1995 Mojo also named it the 62nd greatest album of all time.

Track listing

Personnel