Future Past (Duran Duran album)

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Future Past
File:Duran Duran - Future Past.png
Studio album by Duran Duran
Released 22 October 2021 (2021-10-22)
Length 50:59
Label
  • BMG
  • Tape Modern
Producer
Duran Duran chronology
Paper Gods
(2015)		 Future Past
(2021)		 Danse Macabre
(2023)
Singles from Future Past (Duran Duran album)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 75/100[3]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[4]
Clash 7/10[5]
musicOMH 3.5/5 stars[6]
The Telegraph 3/5 stars[7]
Uncut 3.5/5 stars[3]

Future Past is the fifteenth studio album by the British 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]

Background and content

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]

Cover art

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]

Track listing

Future Past – Standard edition
No. Title Producer(s) Length
1. "Invisible"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 3:11
2. "All of You"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 4:05
3. "Give It All Up" (featuring Tove Lo)
5:07
4. "Anniversary"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 5:18
5. "Future Past"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 3:52
6. "Beautiful Lies"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Moroder
  • Joshua Blair[a]
 3:36
7. "Tonight United"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Moroder
  • Blair[a]
 3:07
8. "Wing"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Blair
 5:19
9. "Nothing Less[c]"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 4:25
10. "Hammerhead[c]" (featuring Ivorian Doll)
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 3:33
11. "More Joy!" (featuring Chai)
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
  • Kaz Haga[b]
  • Mathieu Kranich[b]
  • Hannie Knox[b]
 3:39
12. "Falling" (featuring Mike Garson)
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 5:49
Total length:
 50:59
Future Past – Deluxe edition
No. Title Producer(s) Length
6. "Velvet Newton"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 2:40
7. "Beautiful Lies"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Moroder
  • Blair[a]
 3:36
8. "Tonight United"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Moroder
  • Blair[a]
 3:08
9. "Wing"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Blair
 5:19
10. "Nothing Less[c]"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 4:26
11. "Laughing Boy"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 4:55
12. "Hammerhead[c]" (featuring Ivorian Doll)
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 3:34
13. "Invocation"  
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 2:08
14. "More Joy!" (featuring Chai)
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
  • Haga[b]
  • Kranich[b]
  • Knox[b]
 3:39
15. "Falling" (featuring Mike Garson)
  • Duran Duran
  • Alkan
 5:49
Total length:
 1:00:46
Japanese edition bonus track[14]
No. Title Producer(s) Length
15. "Five Years"  
4:45
Total length:
 1:05:35

Notes

  • ^a signifies vocal producer
  • ^b signifies an assistant producer
  • ^c These tracks are not included on vinyl version

Personnel

Duran Duran

Additional musicians

  • Barli – backing vocals
  • Graham Coxon – guitars
  • Joshua Blair – piano, programming (all tracks); string arrangement (1–3, 5–8), keyboards (3–8), guitars (6), additional keyboards, keyboards programming (9, 10, 12)
  • Erol Alkan – programming (1, 9), synthesizers (1, 3), drum programming (2–5, 9, 10, 12), hand clap (2, 10), percussion, tambourine (2)
  • Tove Lo – vocals (3)
  • Giorgio Moroder – additional keyboards (6, 7)
  • Saffron Le Bon – backing vocals (6, 7, 9, 10)
  • Mark Ronson – guitars (8)
  • Ivorian Doll – vocals (10)
  • Chai – vocals (11)
  • Mike Garson – piano (12)

Technical

  • Wendy Laister – executive production
  • John Webber – mastering
  • Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing
  • Joshua Blair – engineering, Pro Tools
  • Austin Creek – engineering (12)
  • Peter Karlsson – vocal engineering (3)
  • Cory Bice – vocal engineering (3)
  • Ritchie Kennedy – additional engineering (1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10), engineering assistance (3)
  • Tom Herbert – engineering assistance (1–5, 9, 10, 12)
  • Ed Farrell – engineering assistance (1–5, 9, 10, 12)
  • Matt Wolach – mixing assistance
  • Benji Compston – production management
  • Hannie Knox – production assistance

Design

  • Rory McCartney – art direction
  • Daisuke Yokota – cover art, photography
  • Nick Rhodes – band photo

Charts

Chart performance for Future Past
Chart (2021) Peak
position
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 (MegaCharts)[22] 9
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[23] 21
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[24] 8
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[25] 29
23
Italian Albums (FIMI)[26] 10
Japan Top Album sales (Billboard Japan)[27] 51
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[28] 35
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[29] 6
Scottish Albums (OCC)[30] 4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[31] 36
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[32] 10
UK Albums (OCC)[33] 3
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[34] 1
US Billboard 200[35] 28

References

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