Future Days starts out with lots of atmospheric noise. Ugh... please tell me Future Days is not going to be 41 minutes of ambient music. The title track has a nice groove, but is pretty minimal. The vocals are so low in the mix they might as well not exist. Something about rainy days for the sake of future days. The same is true of "Spray". "Moonshake" has a bit more of a poppy vibe to it, almost like a real rock song. Unfortunately the vocals are really low and half-hearted. "Moonshake" is by far the shortest track on the album, almost six full minutes shorter than the second shortest. The fourth and final track of the album is the 20-minute epic (I guess) "Bel Air" contains some interesting passages but is just too much of a long quiet drone for me to care.
Can seems like the kind of band the existed in a time when a lot of musicians were sitting around hotels doing a lot of drugs and trying to invent new avenues for music. What too many seem to have ended up doing is making long rambling avant garde pieces with very little real composition. It's kinda weird to read time and again about how some artists like the guys who created Can wanted to see where they could take rock music only to end up with the same psychedelic trash as everyone else. Some parts are neat, but there's so much nothing to sift through to find it, so I feel like it happened by accident anyway. Sigh, 2 stars.
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