The Future Now
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| The Future Now | ||
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| Studio album by Peter Hammill | ||
| Released | 1978 | |
| Genre | Art rock | |
| Label | Charisma | |
| Peter Hammill chronology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Over (1977) |
The Future Now (1978) |
pH7 (1979) |
The Future Now is an album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1978. It was the first solo album Hammill released following the breakup of his band Van der Graaf Generator, although he had released numerous solo albums while VdGG were active. The album contains twelve short songs, several in the new wave style of VdGG's last studio album, The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, and their live album Vital.
The album cover is a strange photograph of Hammill with one side of his face shaven, the other with a long beard.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Peter Hammill.
- "Pushing Thirty"
- "The Second Hand"
- "Trappings"
- "The Mousetrap"
- "Energy Vampires"
- "If I Could"
- "The Future Now"
- "Still In The Dark"
- "Mediaevil"
- "A Motor-bike in Afrika"
- "The Cut"
- "Palinurus (Castaway)"
[edit] Personnel
- Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica
- David Jackson - saxophone
- Graham Smith - violin
