The Future Sound of London - 2020 Calendar Album

[Rubin Farr]

https://www.fsoldigital.com/product/fsol-2020-calendar/

[BUNKUM]

The return of the physical calendar

[sherkaner]

Dang, it couldn't at least be all-new artwork for the calendar?

[Rubin Farr]

I wish they had a music only option for the AA calendar.

[sherkaner]

So it's January, is this thing happening?

[Rubin Farr]

Brian is usually really late with the track updates, sometimes in the last day or two of the month.

[purlieu]

Yeah, they're normally the 20-somethingth, I think November 2019's was actually on the 30th.

Last year's calendar album was absolutely superb, the more I listen to it the more I think it could actually end up in my top 10 FSOL records, so my hopes are high for this year's.

[Extralife]

On 1/14/2020 at 6:30 PM, purlieu said:

Yeah, they're normally the 20-somethingth, I think November 2019's was actually on the 30th.

Last year's calendar album was absolutely superb, the more I listen to it the more I think it could actually end up in my top 10 FSOL records, so my hopes are high for this year's.

New track out today. Written just this month and suitably lush.

I’d agree that the 2019 album is among their best stuff. So many different vibes, sequenced perfectly together though.

 

[714681746476436]

I've never really listened to FSOL -  could anyone give me a recommendation of a particular album?

[Extralife]

3 minutes ago, 714681746476436 said:

I've never really listened to FSOL -  could anyone give me a recommendation of a particular album?

https://www.discogs.com/The-Future-Sound-Of-London-Dead-Cities/master/6580
 

Classic.

[Rubin Farr]

7 hours ago, 714681746476436 said:

I've never really listened to FSOL -  could anyone give me a recommendation of a particular album?

https://www.discogs.com/The-Future-Sound-Of-London-Teachings-From-The-Electronic-Brain-The-Best-Of-FSOL/release/1610279

[714681746476436]

18 hours ago, Extralife said:

https://www.discogs.com/The-Future-Sound-Of-London-Dead-Cities/master/6580
 

Classic.

This is a great album, thank you!

[Somanymachines]

Can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned - https://www.discogs.com/The-Future-Sound-Of-London-Lifeforms/master/6526

[purlieu]

Lifeforms and Dead Cities are the two go-to albums for newbies. The best of is really, really not. 

ISDN, Archives 5 & 9, Environments 4, 5 and 6.5 would be my next steps after that. But there's so much gold. Just be wary of anything labelled Amorphous Androgynous from 2002, as it's their psych-rock project which is mostly very different.

[mcbpete]

16 minutes ago, purlieu said:

The best of is really, really not. 

Yeah, definitely echo that sentiment also

Ross: Reached a weird point in my life that I now can't decide between ISDN and Dead Cities as my fave FSOL album. Is this what a mid-life crisis is ?

[purlieu]

The answer is Lifeforms.