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La Futura
Studio album by
ZZ Top
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2012 (2012-09-10)
StudioFoam Box Recordings (Houston, Texas)
GenreBlues rock[1]
Length39:18
Label
Producer
ZZ Top chronology
Double Down Live: 1980 & 2008
(2009) 		La Futura
(2012) 		Live at Montreux 2013
(2014)
Singles from La Futura
  1. "I Gotsta Get Paid"
    Released: 2012
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Austin Chronicle[4]
American Songwriter[1]
Daily Express1/5[5]
The Guardian[6]
Mojo[2]
Rolling Stone[7]
The Sydney Morning Herald[8]
Q[2]
Uncut[2]

La Futura is the fifteenth studio album by American rock band ZZ Top, released on September 8, 2012.[9] It is the band's first album in nine years, following Mescalero, and peaked at number 5 on the Billboard "Top Rock Albums" chart. La Futura is also the last studio album released in bassist Dusty Hill's lifetime.

Overview

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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 am. 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 album's lead single, "I Gotsta Get Paid", is a cover of "25 Lighters" by Houston hip hop artist DJ DMD.[11] The song "Chartreuse" was inspired by the famous French liqueur, which the band discovered at the 2011 Musilac Music Festival in the French town of Aix-les-Bains.[12]

Release

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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."[13] 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.[14] Two bonus tracks, titled "Threshold of a Breakdown" and "Drive-By Lover", were released on CDs sold exclusively at Best Buy stores.

Reception

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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."[15] 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

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Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Gotsta Get Paid"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
Deluxe Edition/Best Buy Bonus Tracks[16]
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

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ZZ Top

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications for La Futura
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Germany (BVMI)[38] Gold 100,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  2. ^ a b c d "La Futura by ZZ Top". Metacritic. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "La Futura – ZZ Top". Allmusic. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
  4. ^ Hernandez, Raoul (November 30, 2012). "ZZ Top: La Futura Album Review". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  5. ^ Townsend, Martin (September 9, 2012). "CD Review: ZZ Top La Futura". Daily Express. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  6. ^ Hann, Michael (September 6, 2012). "ZZ Top: La Futura – review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
  7. ^ Hunter, James (September 22, 2012). "La Futura". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  8. ^ Boulton, Martin (October 11, 2012). "EG weekly music reviews". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  9. ^ "La Futura". Play.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
  10. ^ a b "LA FUTURA ARRIVES THIS SEPTEMBER FROM ZZ TOP". Official ZZ Top Website. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  11. ^ "Houston Rap Connects on ZZ Top's "I Gotsta Get Paid"". Mass Appeal. July 8, 2012. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  12. ^ E., St. (May 15, 2014), La chartreuse, de Tarantino à ZZ Top, en passant par Springsteen..., Le Dauphiné libéré, retrieved December 18, 2016
  13. ^ Whitaker, Sterling (August 2, 2012). "ZZ Top Reveal Street Date, Cover Art and Full Tracklist for New Album 'La Futura'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  14. ^ "ZZ Top Premiere New Song 'Flyin' High' on Russian Spacecraft". Ultimate Classic Rock. June 9, 2011. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
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  28. ^ a b Культура: Триумф нестыдной попсы. Lenta.ru (in Russian). Retrieved August 14, 2013.
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  37. ^ "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2012". hitparade.ch. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  38. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ZZ Top; 'la Futura')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
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