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La Futura
Studio album by
ZZ Top
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2012 (2012-09-10)[1]
RecordedApril 2011–June 2012
StudioFoam Box Recordings, Houston, Texas
GenreTexas blues, blues rock, hard rock
Length39:18
LabelAmerican Recordings/Universal Republic
ProducerRick Rubin and Billy Gibbons
ZZ Top chronology
Double Down Live
(2009) 		La Futura
(2012) 		Live at Montreux 2013
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Austin Chronicle[4]
American Songwriter[5]
Daily Express1/5[6]
The Guardian[7]
Mojo[2]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Sydney Morning Herald[9]
Q[2]
Uncut[2]

La Futura is the fifteenth and most recent studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in September 2012. It is their first one in nine years, following Mescalero. It peaked at number 5 in the Billboard "Top Rock Albums" chart.

Overview

La Futura was recorded at The Foambox Recordings in Houston, Texas. The album title and album art were unveiled on ZZ Top's homepage on 3 August 2012 at 11:45 a.m. The album contains 10 tracks.[10] "We thought long and hard about what this album should be," Gibbons said in a press release. "We wanted to recall the directness of our early stuff but not turn our backs on contemporary technology. The result of this melding of the past and the present is, of course, La Futura."[10]

The first four album tracks —"I Gotsta Get Paid", "Chartreuse", "Consumption" and "Over You"—were first released on 5 June 2012 as an iTunes-only collection titled Texicali, which met with strong sales and glowing reviews. Music Radar summed up the tunes as "fresh, vital roadhouse blues."[11] Another track, "Flyin' High", appropriately made its world premiere in space, when the then-unfinished song was played on board a Soyuz spacecraft during its launch to the International Space Station in June 2011 at the request of the NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, a long-time ZZ Top fan and friend.[12] Two bonus tracks, titled "Threshold of a Breakdown" and "Drive-By Lover", were released on CDs sold exclusively at Best Buy stores.

Reception

Following its release, the album received mostly positive reviews. William Clark of Guitar International wrote, "La Futura is an impressive return to form for this infamous southern rock trio, and includes some of the best music ZZ Top has ever pushed out."[13] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic also praised the album, calling it their best album since Eliminator in 1983, while writing that "ZZ Top are celebrating everything that they've taken for granted for decades – they're embracing the sleazy boogie, the dirty jokes, the locomotive riffs, the saturated blues, the persistent lecherous leer, and by doing so they finally sound like themselves again."[3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Gotsta Get Paid" (cover of "25 Lighters" by DJ DMD[14])Dorie Dorsey, Billy Gibbons, Kyle West, Al B. Sure!, Joe Hardy, G.L. Moon4:03
2."Chartreuse"Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard, Moon2:57
3."Consumption"Gibbons3:47
4."Over You"Gibbons, Tom Hambridge4:29
5."Heartache in Blue"Gibbons, Trey Bruce4:09
6."I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose, You"Gibbons, Hambridge4:20
7."Flyin' High"Gibbons, Austin Hanks, D. Sardy4:17
8."It's Too Easy Mañana"David Rawlings, Gillian Welch; additional lyrics by Gibbons4:47
9."Big Shiny Nine"Gibbons, Hardy, Moon3:11
10."Have a Little Mercy"Gibbons3:18
Total length:39:18
Best Buy bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Threshold of a Breakdown"Gibbons, Hambridge3:29
12."Drive by Lover"Gibbons, Van Wilks3:03
Total length:45:50

Personnel

ZZ Top

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

  • Cameron Barton – engineering
  • Ryan Castle – engineering
  • Pedro Chapouris – photography
  • Ross Halfin – photography
  • Jason Lader – recording
  • Eric Lynn – recording
  • Vlado Meller – mastering
  • Gary Moon – recording
  • Sean Oakley – recording
  • Rick Rubin – production
  • Mark Santangelo – mastering
  • Joe Spix – art direction and design

About the tracks

"Chartreuse" is a song about the famous French liqueur Chartreuse the band discovered (and loved) in their dressing room in 2011 during the Musilac Music Festival in Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.[15]

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly sales chart performance for La Futura
Chart (2012) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[16] 7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[17] 28
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[18] 9
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[19] 7
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[20] 14
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[21] 46
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[22] 4
French Albums (SNEP)[23] 13
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[24] 5
Italian Albums (FIMI)[25] 45
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[26] 7
Russian Albums Chart[27] 7
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[28] 62
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[29] 11
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[30] 4
UK Albums Chart 29
US Billboard 200[31] 6
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[32] 5

Year-end charts

Annual sales chart performance for La Futura
Chart (2012) Position
Russian Albums Chart[27] 7

Certifications

Sales certifications for La Futura
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Germany (BVMI)[33] Gold 100,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ "La Futura". Play.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d "La Futura by ZZ Top". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "La Futura – ZZ Top". Allmusic. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  4. ^ Hernandez, Raoul (30 November 2012). "ZZ Top: La Futura Album Review". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  5. ^ Horowitz, Hal (13 September 2012). "ZZ Top: La Futura « American Songwriter". American Songwriter. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  6. ^ Townsend, Martin (9 September 2012). "CD Review: ZZ Top La Futura". Daily Express. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  7. ^ Hann, Michael (6 September 2012). "ZZ Top: La Futura – review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  8. ^ Hunter, James. "La Futura". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  9. ^ Boulton, Martin (11 October 2012). "EG weekly music reviews". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  10. ^ a b "LA FUTURA ARRIVES THIS SEPTEMBER FROM ZZ TOP". Official ZZ Top Website. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  11. ^ Whitaker, Sterling. "ZZ Top Reveal Street Date, Cover Art and Full Tracklist for New Album 'La Futura'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  12. ^ "ZZ Top Premiere New Song 'Flyin' High' on Russian Spacecraft". Ultimate Classic Rock. 9 June 2011. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  13. ^ "ZZ Top Rocks On La Futura". Guitarinternational.com. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  14. ^ "Houston Rap Connects on ZZ Top's "I Gotsta Get Paid"". Mass Appeal. 8 July 2012. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  15. ^ E., St. (15 May 2014), La chartreuse, de Tarantino à ZZ Top, en passant par Springsteen..., Le Dauphiné libéré, retrieved 18 December 2016
  16. ^ "Austriancharts.at – ZZ Top – La Futura" (in German). Hung Medien.
  17. ^ "Ultratop.be – ZZ Top – La Futura" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  18. ^ "Ultratop.be – ZZ Top – La Futura" (in French). Hung Medien.
  19. ^ "ZZ Top Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard.
  20. ^ "Danishcharts.dk – ZZ Top – La Futura". Hung Medien.
  21. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – ZZ Top – La Futura" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  22. ^ "ZZ Top: La Futura" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.
  23. ^ "Lescharts.com – ZZ Top – La Futura". Hung Medien.
  24. ^ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH.
  25. ^ "Italiancharts.com – ZZ Top – La Futura". Hung Medien.
  26. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – ZZ Top – La Futura". Hung Medien.
  27. ^ a b Культура: Триумф нестыдной попсы (in Russian). Lenta.ru. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  28. ^ "Spanishcharts.com – ZZ Top – La Futura". Hung Medien.
  29. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – ZZ Top – La Futura". Hung Medien.
  30. ^ "Swisscharts.com – ZZ Top – La Futura". Hung Medien.
  31. ^ "ZZ Top Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
  32. ^ "ZZ Top Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard.
  33. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ZZ Top; 'la Futura')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
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