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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 to feature bassist Dusty Hill before his death on July 28, 2021.

La Futura
Studio album by ZZ Top
Released	September 10, 2012 (2012-09-10)
Recorded	June 2011 – June 2012
Studio	Foam Box Recordings (Houston, Texas)
Genre	Blues rock[1]
Length	39:18
Label	American Recordings Universal Republic
Producer	Rick Rubin Billy Gibbons
ZZ Top chronology
Double Down Live (2009) La Futura (2012) Live at Montreux 2013 (2014)
Singles from La Futura
"I Gotsta Get Paid" Released: 2012

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
The Austin Chronicle	[4]
American Songwriter	[1]
Daily Express	1/5[5]
The Guardian	[6]
Mojo	[2]
Rolling Stone	[7]
The Sydney Morning Herald	[8]
Q	[2]
Uncut	[2]

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 lead single "I Gotsta Get Paid" is a cover of "25 Lighters" by DJ DMD.[11] The song "Chartreuse" is 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.[12]

Release

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

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

Personnel

ZZ Top

• Billy Gibbons – vocals, guitar, production
• Dusty Hill – bass, keyboards, vocals
• Frank Beard – drums

Additional musicians

• Joe Hardy – piano, Hammond B3 organ, recording
• James Harman – harmonica
• Dave Sardy – piano, Hammond B3 organ, mixing

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

Charts

Certifications

Sales certifications for La Futura

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Germany (BVMI)[38]	Gold	100,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

На других языках

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[de] La Futura

La Futura ist das 15. Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Bluesrock-Band ZZ Top. Es wurde in den Foambox Recordings in Houston, Texas aufgenommen und ist am 11. September 2012 erschienen.

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[ru] La Futura

La Futura (исп. искаж. Будущее) — пятнадцатый студийный альбом американской рок-группы ZZ Top, вышедший в 2012 году. Выпущенный группой после девятилетнего перерыва, альбом поднялся в Billboard 200 до шестого места. Альбом также очень высоко был оценен критиками, так, Стивен Эрлевайн сказал, что «La Futura — несомненно лучший альбом группы со времён 1980-х»[3]

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