On Future Days, Can fully explored the ambient direction they had introduced into their sound on the previous year's Ege Bamyasi, and in the process created a landmark in European electronic music.

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Damo Suzuki's cooing ("You hide behind a borrowed chase / For the sake of Future Days") never sounded so alluring, and Can's music had never seemed as sensuous or divorced from gravity.

The German adventurers' last album with frontman Damo Suzuki was also their most restful and spacious, flooded with air and sunlight.

Future Days sets its sights a little lower. Suzuki mostly sticks to the background, aside from a peculiar attempt at a pop song ("Moonshake"); the rest of the album is three long, dreamy pieces that suggest Can had been listening to electric-era Miles Davis.

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Moonshake invented acting silly on the beat

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it has moonshake

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unsurpassable (★★★★★)

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krautrock is my shit yes sir

Favorite Tracks: Future Days, Moonshake, Bel Air

Least Favorite Track: Spray

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i’m getting hints of… Fishmans? this is a great album from Can. the only other album i’ve heard by them felt more showy than this in terms of technical skill, but this is more sonically pleasing. this is also way ahead of it’s time, i found myself checking the release date in disbelief. this is really great! approved!
FAV TRACK: Future Days

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