Future Now (Vinyl LP) Hard Rock

Future Now (Vinyl LP) Hard RockA wonderful album from Pleasure a group who were already great before, but who really seem to hit a great new level with this late 70s classic! Pleasure started out as a sweet jazz funk combo with a great edge to their music but by the time of this set, they'd actually gotten even tighter and better but all without losing their depth at all! Most of the group's contemporaries just got slick and commercial but instead, Pleasure found a way to hone

"a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations" (New York Times

relationships are complicated

dinger bellowing 'the only crime is money' like an anarchist sloganeer

Sun Ra) on percussion

The album was recorded over 15 months in the band's east London studio-laboratory-bunker with co-producer Craig Silvey

the most popular album of the year was Peter Frampton's pioneering Frampton Comes Alive

keys and vocal harmonies combine effortlessly

And even though we only have access to an infinitesimal portion of the music he made

His mesmerizing

And being known for excellent DJ and selector skills able to create deep and colorful musical atmospheres

the album was formally released in late 2009

'Mayday's Shaft-like long extended intro builds the drama until the percussive release when the drums drop at over three minutes in