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Released | 22 October 2021 | |||
Length | 50:59 | |||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 75/100 [3] |
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AllMusic | [4] |
Clash | 7/10 [5] |
musicOMH | [6] |
The Telegraph | [7] |
Uncut | [3] |
Future Past is the fifteenth studio album by English rock band Duran Duran, released on 22 October 2021. It is the band's first album to be released through BMG, and their first since 2015's Paper Gods six years prior. [8] [9]
The album, co-produced by the band alongside Mark Ronson, Giorgio Moroder and Erol Alkan, also features guest appearances by Tove Lo, Ivorian Doll, Japanese band Chai, and Mike Garson. Blur's Graham Coxon is the guitarist on the album. [9]
The band released the album's first single "Invisible" on 19 May 2021. [10] The tracks "More Joy!" featuring Chai, "Anniversary", "Tonight United" and "Give It All Up" featuring Tove Lo were also released in advance of the album. [11]
John Taylor described Future Past as a "very emotionally deep album", revealing that the lyrics were primarily written before 2020's COVID-19 lockdowns: "Many of the songs are about emotional crises, or long-term intimacy issues, let's call them. When we came back after lockdown, I felt that those lyrics, particularly 'Invisible', spoke to the moment, because the last 18 months have really been about intimacy politics." [12]
The cover is a colourised and combined image of two black-and-white pictures by Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Nick Rhodes met Yokota in 2017 while researching for a documentary about Japanese photographers. The album's art director Rory McCartney laid the images over the top of one another, creating the effect of a stationary silhouette in red with another silhouette in green moving beyond it, which resonated with McCartney. [13]
Future Past was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 75, based on six reviews.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Invisible" |
| 3:11 | |
2. | "All of You" |
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| 4:05 |
3. | "Give It All Up" (featuring Tove Lo) |
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| 5:07 |
4. | "Anniversary" |
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| 5:18 |
5. | "Future Past" |
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| 3:52 |
6. | "Beautiful Lies" |
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| 3:36 |
7. | "Tonight United" |
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| 3:07 |
8. | "Wing" |
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| 5:19 |
9. | "Nothing Less [c] " |
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| 4:25 |
10. | "Hammerhead [c] " (featuring Ivorian Doll) |
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| 3:33 |
11. | "More Joy!" (featuring Chai) |
| 3:39 | |
12. | "Falling" (featuring Mike Garson) |
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| 5:49 |
Total length: | 50:59 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Velvet Newton" |
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| 2:40 |
7. | "Beautiful Lies" |
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| 3:36 |
8. | "Tonight United" |
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| 3:08 |
9. | "Wing" |
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| 5:19 |
10. | "Nothing Less [c] " |
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| 4:26 |
11. | "Laughing Boy" |
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| 4:55 |
12. | "Hammerhead [c] " (featuring Ivorian Doll) |
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| 3:34 |
13. | "Invocation" |
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| 2:08 |
14. | "More Joy!" (featuring Chai) |
| 3:39 | |
15. | "Falling" (featuring Mike Garson) |
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| 5:49 |
Total length: | 1:00:46 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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15. | "Five Years" |
| 4:45 | |
Total length: | 1:05:35 |
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Chart (2021) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [15] | 16 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [16] | 9 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [17] | 16 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [18] | 6 |
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [19] | 53 |
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [20] | 39 |
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [21] | 12 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [22] | 9 |
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [23] | 21 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [24] | 8 |
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [25] | 29 |
Irish Albums (OCC) [26] | 23 |
Italian Albums (FIMI) [27] | 10 |
Japan Top Album sales ( Billboard Japan ) [28] | 51 |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [29] | 35 |
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [30] | 6 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [31] | 4 |
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [32] | 36 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [33] | 10 |
UK Albums (OCC) [34] | 3 |
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [35] | 1 |
US Billboard 200 [36] | 28 |
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