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It was interesting
I love Can. This is one of their easier listens.
Strange, drifting, and quietly gorgeous. It doesn’t offer hooks so much as an atmosphere—hazy, hypnotic, and a bit alien. Not an album for everyone, but if you let it unfold at its own pace, it becomes something oddly beautiful and deeply immersive.
Relax
Eclectic.
I like songs to have at least some melody, or at least something to distinguish them from just 'sound'. This, for me, was the latter, and while it would have been an excellent soundtrack to something stimulating, like a nature video for example, it offers very little to keep me engaged on its own. As with anything conceptual, experimental or "important", it also has to be good and listenable. This wasn't that. I was also not a fan of the weak vocal when it came
Strange yet funky. Didn't leave a huge impact, but I quite liked it for what it was. Spray was my favorite track.
I enjoyed this but it was limited by having to listen on youtube. Big, confident noodly soundscapes with space and jazzy touches and a nice floaty vibe. Punctuated by ads. If i saw this in a second hand record store i'd buy it just to try and listen uninterrupted.
The vibes are okay but it's just not stimulating enough for me
Amazing record. What a band.
Es gmüetlichs, churzes, melodischs Album zum im hindergrund lose wärend em schaffe und freud dran ha? Yes you can! Sehr nice ihstieg is album mit dem 10 minute ufbau und au sust hets gmundet wie es köstlichs lauwarms Dosebier am 10i am morge ah irgend eme Festival. Gern grad 4 vo dene min Rache abeballere
Oh! This seems very accessible! Compared to Tago Mago, it's like they could have been aiming for increased sales - I hope they did well with any such ambition :-) Just four songs across just 40 minutes - but they're good songs. (Compare to the leisurely digital sprawl of Hayley Williams clocking in at 100 minutes for one 'album' - oh well.) "Future Days" is (at least) Very Good, 8/10.
Really liked it. Another album ahead of its time
Epic
Lowkey good
Écouté distraitement : j'aime bien les morceaux longs et progressifs mais j'ai pas eu de moment "ok ça valait le coup d'attendre"
Breezy and jammy. Future Days is the beautiful cross between German psychedelic music and electronic tropical experimentations. I love that the lore for this is just "the band went on vacation to tropical climates and that inspired the album," because it shows. There's less emphasis on writing songs with vocals, so the ambient elements from previous albums take center stage on Future Days, but there's still the driving motorik rhythms. So delightful, so pleasant!
so blissful
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Det här gillade jag, positiv överraskning! Psykedelisk rock som jag upplever nästan meditativt, men det är ändå svängigt och ibland upplever jag det nästan funkigt. Trummorna är mycket framträdande. Bäst är Moonshake. Får bli en 5a för detta kommer jag definitivt lyssna på igen.
This is great, a bit of a slow burner but it's full of atmosphere and there's enough variation in tone and vibe across the album's 4 tracks to keep things interesting. I especially like Spray for it's slightly eerie feel, and Moonshake sounds like post-punk played in a smokey jazz bar.
I have heard the name, but I've never heard the music. I do recall seeing that they are supposedly an influence on bands I like such as Radiohead and LCD Soundsystem - so I'm excited to listen to this. 1st time through... Wow, only 4 songs for 40 minutes. This should be interesting. I listened to this all the way through before breakfast and was digging it the whole time. It definitely has a hypnotic vibe - in a great way. 2nd time through... - I kept thinking the singer is a woman but turned out it's a dude. The vocals are not very prominent in the mix. I'm not even sure what he's saying most of the time. This band seems less about the lyrics and more about the music. - I can definitely hear their influence on Radiohead and also bands like Portishead. - Kept thinking this could be great as a movie soundtrack - and then found that one of their songs (not from this album) was used in the movie "Jagged Edge" in the 80s. I'll have to check out that song. - Cool how they combine electronic synthesizers with atmospheric guitar (not blues based) and awesome drumming. I think the drumming is a standout feature on most of this. - crazy that this came out in 1973 - seems like it's influenced tons of bands from the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Future Days is a good name for this 3rd time through ... Yeah, I like all 4 of these songs and am excited to see them pop up on my automated playlists. Also interested to dive deeper into other CAN albums. This is exactly why I signed up for this album a day thing - to discover great stuff like this. Even though there are many clunkers on this list - there are some true hidden gems like this. Liked songs on Spotify: 4/4 (Perfect Album) Rating: 5/5
Ok isso foi incrível!! Adorei!
Trash.
Background music
wow. How high do you have to be to even begin to think this is worth a shit? -1
You have to be in a certain mood to even listen to this, but it hits under the right conditions.
Not my type of music but was OK.
This album really changed my perception on music. My first listen to this was one of my favorite music listening experiences ever. I was completely mesmerized by the amount of detail, textural depth and the progression each song takes. 5 years later it still blows me away. The album just doesn't waste a single second, while at the same time creating some of the most impressive landscapes ever. Starts off warm and sunny with these hypnotic rhythms and groovy guitars, making you feel like you're having a lazy beach day in paradise. Then the whole thing becomes more and more psychedelic with some of the most impressive sound design ever. It's like taking LSD on that beach and the whole world becomes more and more disjointed. The grooves are absolutely insane, whether they are slow and repetitive or fast and dance-able they are just straight up addictive. I can put this album on any time and 40 minutes just fly by.
Good listen. 3.5/5
This was overall way longer than it needed to be, I thought, however it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be i found myself able to listen to it while doing homework. I liked moonshake
Prog
Interesting, good in the right mood Standout song: Bel Air
Понимаю почему некоторым людям может не понравится CAN - Future Days. Для эмбиента этот альбом слишком "заметный".. Как бы правильнее сказать.. Когда вы слушаете эмбиент он в большей степени сливается с фоном твоей жизни, является его приятным дополнением и сопровождением. А композиции из этого альбома слишком заметные, слишком примечательные и сложные, чтоб быть типичным современным фоновым эмбиентом. И тем ни менее, это красивая музыка, не все к ней были готовы тогда, не все готовы и сейчас, как грица "acquired of taste". Это очень приятная и интересная вещица, особенно титуальный трек Future Days и самая большая работа, "закрывашка" Bel Air, почти какой-то трансцедентальный опыт. Для меня. это музыка определенно не на каждый день и под особое настроение. Но мне определенно понравилось.
Can - Future Days (1973) Вывод: рок в эмбиентной стихии Экспрессионистский драйв с воздушной пейзажной красотой. Музыкально он строит свои 40 минут неподдающейся какой-то категоризации музыки. Голос певца словно летняя дымка, а синтезаторы как вода. Это такое дотошное выстраивание образа, подражание природе. Кажется, даже через резкие периодические запилы, слышны звуки птиц и животных. "Future Days" звучит как бесконечный отпуск: джазовые ритмы текут, словно морские волны, убаюкивая и погружая в транс. Мне кажется, это похоже на водопад или на бурную реку, а ты стоишь на берегу.
This was horrible. It was so bad I might skip every future krautrock album
Glorious, epic, expansive explorations. One of my all time favs. Just so cool and badass. The slow intro to Future Days! Goes all over and doesn't ever rush. Jaki and Holger ♡
Really fantastic, spacey and atmospheric krautrock. Tago Mago probably still has the edge for me, but this is wonderful.
Hard to believe this was made in 1973. The vocals are terrible in a few places, but the instrumental work is very cool.
Nope not into it
Doesn't bother me - wasn't bad to have on in the background of what I was working on.
Not really my thing. Kinda jammy?
No me gusto. Casi todo el disco suena igual no hay ninguna variación y casi que no hay letra.
Different - experimental, ethereal, spacey “rock”. I enjoyed Future Days. Spray lost me, especially the “singing” at the end of the track. Moonshake was ok, a little repetitive for my taste. Bel Air was also a meh - felt like a run on sentence and should have been two songs. The second half was better than the first.(3)
I very much appreciate the Can vibe. We needed Can to get to The Fall.
Super jammy, super experimental krautrock. I dig it.
Did not expect this! Very chill, super creative and great vibes. Composition is superb and production quality is amazing. Very proggy, very ambient and virtuoso!
So good. One of the best albums of all time, but not even Can's best album.
*1973. German Krautrock group. *4 songs, 40 minute album. *Sounds like Phish - kind of spacey, but really light and pretty good background music. *I wouldn't listen to this again, but I wouldn't be mad if someone had it on. RATING - 6/10
Can é uma banda que eu estou há anos com a intenção de começar a ouvir atentamente, e mais uma vez a lista veio me salvar da minha própria procrastinação. Sempre ouvi coisas boas do grupo, e minhas expectativas foram mais do que atendidas quando ouvi o disco Future Days. A canção titular e introdutória do álbum é uma ótima síntese do que o disco apresenta: Uma ambientação profunda e intrincada, seguida de um groove complexo e hipnotizante. A canção te leva à lugares distantes e elaborados, com vocais requintados e instrumentalização rica. O resto do disco é tão bom quanto sua faixa titular. Os ritmos embalados continuam, adicionando uma pitada saborosa de Jazz nas composições, acompanhadas de uma percussão estrondosamente espetacular e de cordas dançantes. Tudo em ótimo tom e gosto. Um disco verdadeiramente feliz que me fez bem. Repleto de detalhes e ornamentos bonitos, este disco e suas poucas faixas são todas intoxicantes. Ótima escuta e não vejo a hora de me aprofundar melhor na discografia da banda. 5/5
Interesting listen. Calm, ambient, atmospheric, relaxing. I'm not blown away, but I enjoyed listening.
I liked this far more than I thought I would. Definitely worth a listen.
Just kind of … long tracks of noise?
Weird and interesting!
I see a lot of people consider this the best Can album and as much I respect its influence and its honestly-highly-ahead-of-its-time nature, I have never been able to fully gel with this one like Tago Mago or Ege Bamyasi. I think I even prefer Monster Movie to this one. But still, if you want something incredibly hazy, surreal and atmospheric with enough rhythmic variety and controlled chaos to go around, this is your band and especially your album. This sounds like early morning fog during a misty rain.
There's something about the noodling on here that just pulls you under its hypnotic grasp. The sounds found here are spacy and ambient, but refuses to fall into the background. Clocking in at just over 3 minutes, 'Moonshake' is the shortest and most radio-friendly song here due to its funky reggae-infused groove. The three other songs on this album are lengthy, with 'Bel Air' running just shy of 20 minutes and taking the entirety of the second side. The way that the drumming creeps in on that track is absolutely masterful and its one of those moments that had the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Damo Suzuki doesn't have the best singing voice, but the vocals aren't the main attraction and they add atmosphere to the overall sound. He's never front and center so its never abrasive. This was a total trip and you hear how this influenced many future artists. I can definitely see what post-Kid A Radiohead took from Can by listening to this album for example. It may be over 50 years old, but this sounds a lot more modern than it actually is.
Another background music but this one was really enjoyable.
This was a real grower. I started out none plussed, but ended up loving it. What it does, it does very well indeed.
Interesting is the word here. Might have been disturbing for some people back in 1973. The first song reminded me of Air. Its pleasant, making a nice background music that accompanies you
Drew me in on the first listen and love the ambient/prog meandering. Very different to what I knew of them.
Kinda Jammy. Listenable
Never heard them before, but was very curious about them. Yeah, this is very good! Will relisten very soon and looking forward to hear more from them
Not really my thing, not offensive, as some have been, but nothing I would ever buy.
This did not work for me. Alternate between boring and a little bit irritating.
Future Days is an album that i don't have too much to say about but it still was a fairly decent listen. I can see both similarities and differences between this album and the prior album i heard from this band (Tago Mago). Both albums are structured very similarly to each other and have the same general vibe to them. However, i think i like this one more as it is less noisy than Tago Mago which makes it a fair bit more palatable. The songs still can get pretty forgettable though even with their quirks. The main reason for this is mostly the length of these songs as well as the fact they seem to rely on ambiance a lot. That being said, this album was still a decent listen, just not very remarkable. Best Song: Moonshake Worst Song: Bel Air
Lots of noise. Some of it was tolerable, though.
Um yup, it’s ok. Odd.
It's the future. I've tasted it.
Huh, this was pretty cool. Not something I'd revisit, but this was my first exposure to 'Krautrock' and it was interesting.
A perfect soundtrack for pondering when you have racing thoughts
Can can, can you do the can can? No, I can't.
Present crap
Good as a soundtrack, vibey, not amazing
Pretty weird, but definitely has some cool parts.
A 4 or 5. Can is just great.
1 - not for me
*Unique album with a cool feel to it
I enjoyed the sounds and textures, i think i would come back to this album
Innovative for 1973
Very whatever background music; shouldn't be on here.
I like the tribal rhythms.
2/19/26. Loved this. I hear a lot of groundwork laid from later works I enjoy, notably Getting Killed by Geese. Enjoyed the polyrhythms and soundscapes produced, I'll definitely come back to this.
This was really good and interesting. One of the better previously unknown pulls from this list so far
i feel like i am in an acid trip and i am fully sober, what?
Love it but perhaps only because I know my mom would hate it
I like a lot of progressive rock, so it’s odd this took me so long to find. This is excellent. It isn’t easy listening, but it isn’t especially difficult either: no more so than a lot of Pink Floyd, particularly their Meddle / Atom Heart Mother era. One difference between Can and Pink Floyd is Can's groove. As an example, on “Future Days,” especially in the later stretch where the bass locks in with hand percussion, there’s a rhythmic feel that’s almost funky. You would never hear this with Pink Floyd, but it works well. That pulse keeps the music grounded even when it drifts into more abstract territory. Damned good stuff. Most of the albums in this project, I listen to once, typically think "good, not great" and then never listen to again. I've already played this four times, and it won't be the last. Four stars.
psychedelic rock - it’s fine but there’s much better of what it’s trying to do
Interesting album, can’t quite put ,my finger on whether I liked it or not, I see from the write up on the band, it has inspired quite a few - 1968 seems like they were well ahead of their time.
De tyske krautrockerne i Can, her med et ambient-prosjekt. Fire sanger, hvorav brorparten er over 8 minutter lange (med en avslutning på 20 minutter). Musikken er atmosfærisk og varm, og jeg følte tidvis at jeg var omringet av ulike dyrearter i en tett jungel eller på den afrikanske savanne. Det er altså rimelig rolig og behagelig. Dessverre har jeg ingen interesse av å lytte noe videre til dette, da det oppleves som en forholdsvis kjedelig affære. Foruten tre minutter lange Moonshake, som er det nærmeste vi kommer en pop-perle, er sangene langtekkelige og krever en tålmodighet jeg ikke besitter. Top 3: Moonshake, Future Days, Bel Air
It was pretty decent but not mix here to draw you back again
Not really my vibe
4/5
Not my types of music at all
This album is just fun and frenetic. Great stuff.
Not bad, easy to listen to.
intrigued by this tone in the grand scheme of krautrock :P favorites: moonshake; bel air
Album can and indeed does absolutely bang, lots of potential for a 5
3,5
did not have much hope going into this album but it did surprise me it was pretty cool seeing where the songs were heading In definitely a fun listen
Love this album. I've known Moonshake before, and it's still my favourite (mainly due to it being only 3 minutes long, which gives it great replay value), but the sound on this record is just amazing. 10/10 Favourite track: Moonshake
Not really sure what this was haha talking vocals at some points...instrumental in others...all different types of instruments and sounds Not my thing
I liked this Can album better than the other on the list. More ambient, less noise.
Enjoyed that, never heard of them, will delve into the back catalogue a bit more
Back to back 4 song albums. I’m seeing a trend. The funky meandering tunes really take you on a journey that doesn’t quite feel of this time or place. I enjoyed it for sure but definitely for me more of a thing I’d put on in the background and vibe to more than actively listen. The 19 minute finale was a real joy.
Funky fresh aber auch bisschen langweilig
Ich: „Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?“ Can: Number 9, Number 9, Number 9,…“
Das Problem mit experimenteller Instrumentalicher musik, dass sie schnell zu irgendetwas dadaistischem wird. Die Grenze wird hier auch oft überschritten, aber dennoch sehr chillig
Mellower than i thought it would be solid.
What a snoozefest. For such a short album, I really checked the clock a lot.
Not bad for all instrumental but nothing great or jaw dropping.
Really cool. I've only listened to Tago Mago before this, but I think that I like this one a bit more. Clearly very influential while also being developed enough to be great on its own.
Now we're getting progressive. What great fellas. Delighted to see so many 5 star reviews.
Interesting
it's an experimental rock album with almost no lyrics. four songs in the album and 41 minutes long. it's a lot.
Their fourth album. Art Rock / Psychedelic Rock. An album and group I'd not heard of until today. I am blown away that an album from '73 is structured this way. It sounds futuristic even in 2026. I loved the sounds and atmosphere it gave me. The drumming is just superb. A really good new discovery today with this album.
Love this moody album. This is the kind of music I’m hoping to discover! Hidden gems I wouldn’t know about.
Great album. Track 3 a clear highlight. And the drumming on every track is outstanding
German (pejorative). I can almost see where it's going sometimes but it never actually gets there.
When it's good it's great, but it does meander in parts. Very strong 7/10
I really didn't know what to make of this.
What was in the air and water in the 70s besides pure crack that made people create such long ass songs? By the time a semblance of music actually appears, I feel like I’ve gone through three divorces, five kids, and four jobs. This is just sounds? And yeah, I know music is just sounds, but it also has to have some, I don’t know, musicality to it? These songs feel like the background sounds they use in films. Not background music. Background sounds. So picture this. It’s an action movie. The first song sets the scene. Our main guy is relaxing, living his best life. He’s rich, handsome, all women fight to the death over him. He’s out in town trying to get with one of these said women. He’s at a bar. He sees her and falls in love because she’s not like other girls. She isn’t giving him attention, which means he’s gotta have her. She gives him a look that lasts two seconds too long and leaves. He quickly stands up, forcefully smashing his whiskey on ice on the countertop. He rushes outside in hopes of finding her. The end of that first song is playing as he pushes through the crowd. He finally sees her. He reaches out his hand, but right when he’s about to touch her shoulder, he’s swallowed by the crowd. Unbeknownst to him, this was a setup. He realizes he is actually being dragged away, and since he is in such a big crowd, no one notices anything suspicious. He’s been blindfolded. As the blindfold is taken off and he opens his eyes, he realizes that he has no idea where he ended up or how much time has passed. Everything is dark. He can only tell he is in some sort of warehouse. As he tries to make out his surroundings, a silhouette appears in the corner of his eye. It’s the woman he saw at the bar. This whole thing was a trap, he thinks to himself. The boss makes himself visible as well. He tells our protagonist that he has been chosen. He is the one that’s going to help them with their investigation. He’s the only one that could do it. Why, you may ask? It’s never explained. It’s irrelevant. He’s the protagonist. Why would you question the logic of this movie? The rest of the song plays as the plan and its details are explained. We skip a little bit so we can get to the next song. They are in the van, waiting for the museum thieves to appear. Of course it’s a heist movie. A bad one at that. For some time, nothing happens. Then, at a specific minute in the song, the thieves enter the museum. Our protagonists storm the building. A chase ensues. It goes on and on. They catch the thieves. Bla bla, unimportant. Time skip again. The last song is there just as an outro. We see our guys living the time of their lives. The main guy and that girl end up together because of course they do, even though they barely spoke throughout the entire movie and basically just hated each other the whole time. But hey, that’s the beauty of straight relationships.
Now this I CAN get into.
Not quite a 4 but was very good and held up through multiple plays.
Right when I saw that it had four tracks totaling 40 minutes, I already knew I would enjoy this nonsense. And then I did.
The first time I listened to Moonshake, it blew my mind. After finding out that CAN was an influence on Radiohead, I had to listen to the whole album. The energy throughout is too good. It’s just got this mystical and driving atmosphere all tied by the hypnotic rhythm, nothing like anything I’ve heard before. One of my favorite discoveries of the past couple months.
Wow! I was not expecting this when I saw the album cover. What a breath of fresh air. This project is simultaneously tight and incredibly experimental- it evokes sounds and feelings that Gorillaz albums like Plastic Beach, all while being 40 years older. I cannot get over how modern this sounds. And the production is so so crisp- the difference between this and the other 60's and 70's albums we've listened to is stark. A true work of experimental art and a wonderful find. My one gripe- the vocals are sort of more spoken word and are set back behind the mix, but I appreciate this as a general fan of alternative vocal deliveries and stylings in music. Favorite Tracks: The whole thing, no skips Experimental Krautrock Ball-Knowledge: Greatly Increased
Easily one of the strangest listens I've had in recent memory, the complex sounds presented are nonetheless vastly enjoyable. Its production manages to be absurdly deep and varied without feeling erratic. Sounds blend together and play off each other so uniquely and effectively. You've gotta love an album calling its shot being called Future Days, only for it to sound like a completely modern album for a listener like me 50yrs later. This could be released today and still be wildly interesting, innovative, and clean sounding. Each track (most at least double the avg modern song length) feels like a journey unto itself, with all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, and you're just along for the ride. I love the instrumentation and obvious southeast Asian influences, the mixing quality is phenomenal, and I feel like I could listen to this dozens of times without really cracking the surface.
Can really leans into the atmospheric, improvisational vibe here. The title track is the clear standout for me. "Future Days" has this dreamy, flowing quality that pulls you along without feeling repetitive. "Moonshake" also delivers with its groovy, laid-back vibe that shows the band's great rhythm section. For me it can feel a bit too aimless at times. Some tracks meander without really going anywhere compelling, and the lack of structure sometimes just feels unfocused. It rewards active listening but didn't always hold my attention. That said, if you're into ambient or experimental music, there's definitely something here. It's influential stuff that clearly paved the way for a lot of post-rock and electronic music that came later, just not really my vibe.
ну такое. чисто из за норм барабанов ставлю не 1
Another weird one but aptly named. High 3? Solid background listening but nothing grabs me
👎🏻
Future days, future love and more golden cans please.
Honestly didn’t know what to expect going into this album. This album was weird, yet groovy at times. I think the instrumentation and the sonics are the best part of this album for me. I enjoyed the moments of just instruments the most. The vocals to me were weird and quite low in comparison to everything else. It was hard to hear and comprehend what was being said. Also this album is 4 songs, but 40 minutes, but the only song i felt dragged on was the final song, but it was also 20 min long. I think the middle 2 songs are the best part of the album and the rest of it was just fine.
Future Days - 3/5 - Spray - 2/5 Moonshake - 2.5/5 Bel Air - 3/5
One of the strangest entries on this list so far… extremely hard to rate as it’s definitely not bad, in fact it’s good. However, I’d never listen to it again. More of an immersive one-off experience than a music album. Long, drawn-out, spacey, atmospheric soundscapes. Probably giving it a high 3, not quite a 4-level of enjoyment.
Pretty cool. I wasn't familiar with this album or the band prior to this list, so I appreciate the new experience. Somehow it managed to be both simple and complex, interesting and monotonous. It made for a unique listening experience. Future days was an apt name for the album. It felt like something far more recent than it's release date (1973) would've led me to believe. The music itself reminded me more of the drum and bass albums I've been recommended than the contemporary rock efforts on the list. Fitting, since the one that came to mind (New Forms by Roni Size) came out almost 25 years later. Future Days indeed. Unlike New Forms, this album felt like it lasted the appropriate amount of time. It was only four tracks, but the last one, the 20-minute Bel Air, felt more like four or five songs combined. Two of the others each ran over 8 minutes. I thought that worked well with their style and form, so it didn't get old. This was true even though it felt like the songs never really had that much involvement in them. They kept things spacious and simple, and it worked to create a strange but pleasant listen. For as interesting as it was, though, I can't say I really loved it or saw much there to say it was a great album. Most of it seemed good, or fine at worst. But it was easy to zone out for stretches. When it came back into focus, it didn't really feel like I had missed anything important. I guess it felt more like something for the background than something to really engage with fully. So, while I enjoyed this, I don't think it's much better than good/fine. I appreciate it's inclusion and showing me something new, and I give it credit for being different and strangely interesting. It also had a good vibe. I just don't know that I'd be inclined to listen to it again. Overall: 2.9/5
An album who's ratings on here have a perfect rating pattern with the peak at 3. That's the ideal score here for me, it's not a hard listen but also is fairly meandering and somewhat indiscernimable.
Interesting sound
Loved the first song, the others are a slight drop off but a great innovative album
2 Stars (5/15)
Boo
spacey as hell
Second album I've been introduced to from this (previously unknown to me) group and I'm digging it! Lots of experimentation still, but the changes between (and within) songs seems less jarring than on Tago Mago. Overall, it creates a nice flow from start to finish.
Repetitive and compelling, a true benchmark for the Krautrock subgenre, a must for every record library. All hail Damo Suzuki!
i feel like i’m in a jungle taking part in a ritual
How cool is Can? Ahead of their time on many fronts. I find the drumming to have a modern sound and rhythm. I already started listening to more Can.
not a bad track and future days (title track) is the best can has to offer
Not bad.
#831. CAN, sure, but SHOULD? 3/5: maybe
Prog rock is definitely my cup of tea and this was an easy rating.
Ok tier 3/5
Dreamy, hypnotic, and somehow feels like music designed for staring at a wall while waiting for something interesting to happen. Very pretty wallpaper.
Kaum zugehört. Irgendwie wild. Gibt mir KrautRock-Vibes
Fine, if you say so.
Interesting, meditative
I thought it might get into it, but it was the reverse. Seemed to start okay, then I got bored after a while. There's a certain chill element to it, but I'd rather listen to something else.
Not my thing at all. Super long tracks (20 minutes?!?) and it is weird
Really cool
Enjoyed this mostly instrumental sound album. Creative and chill. Good for a morning commute.
Its prog rock. It's mostly instrumental. The tracks get progressively longer. It's fine. Did I mention it's prog rock?
okay. few lyrics so works as a sound shield from neighbors' tiktoks when reading a book.
𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 presents Can at their most serene and immersive, drifting into an ambient, liquid sound world where everything feels carefully blended. It’s bittersweet knowing this was Damo Suzuki’s final album with the band, because his understated presence fits perfectly into this softer, more atmospheric direction. Jaki Liebezeit’s drumming is the quiet marvel of the record — precise, fluid and hypnotic without ever calling attention to itself. While it doesn’t hit the same heights of wild creativity as 𝘛𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘰, 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 is still a beautiful, transportive listen that shows just how elegantly Can could evolve.
Oh 4 tracks, that will be quick... 40 minutes later...
Experimental but easy to listen to.
Future Days is almost always interesting, but almost never enthralling. The best part of the album is the percussion, which is layered and unpredictable. I like how some tracks have multiple kinds of drums. But the percussion is also a bit subtle, meaning to fully appreciate it you have to really focus on it. The guitar is similar - it's a bit funky and makes interesting sounds, but nothing gripping or hypnotic. I'm sure there are people who can listen to this and really latch on to the subtleties and get lost in it, but my brain isn't wired that way. It's not that I think this needs to be louder or rock harder, it's more that everything is so loose while somehow also feeling restrained. And with how jammy it is, there's very little to distinguish the songs. Not a satisfying album, but not a boring one at least.
Amazing album! Feels way ahead of its time. For me, it scratches the Mars Volta itch (one of my favourite bands). I'll definitely be exploring more of their back catalogue.
Not sure what to make of this one. Which is probably the intended effect. I would imagine it is a grower. Better than Holger’s solo offering though, which admittedly is a low bar
Can's Future Days is a great blend of krautrock, space and electronica - it's a progressive, complex yet calming album with beautiful, hazy soundscapes. I need to listen to it again because the setting wasn't ideal for it today, but for now it's 4 stars (at first listen I preferred Tago Mago to this).
Funky vibes. Great instrumental
Enjoyed "Moonshake." The rest sort of just washed over me. Didn't really feel one way or the other about it. I know they're influential and, say, Josh Homme has said they informed QOTSA's sound, and I can sort of see that, but it's just so-so.
A bit to ‘cyber Jazz’ for me. Sounded like the experimental middle sections of the early Floyd songs!
This was so unexpected! I loved it!
Took a bit to get into, but great album, great percussions.
Intreging....I listed to this twice
didn't really like it
This does nothing for me.
This one was fun. Somehow managed to feel fresh.
Great listen even with 4 songs it feels like a ethereal experience and an album that had a feeling like no other. Magical vocals that I'm still trying to interpret and the composition of all the instruments was also done well, and those drums towards the end of Bel Air led to a great closure. Overall very great album and listen. 9.5/10 Favorite Song: Bel Air
An interesting mix of sounds and textures. I’d never heard of them and this was a good introductory album for them.
It was ok a bit of decent drumming in there but tracks too long
It's like a cool intro or outro that never ends. Unfortunately doesn't go anywhere either. I don't mind the sound, drum focus is cool, bit of an atmosphere, but nah, needs something else for me.
Chill
war mir zu experimentell
Only 4 tracks??? Holy prog??? Anyways it felt like a short yet sweet album for the Christmas Eve times, very silly yet almost very groovy instrumentals that just felt like a fun time. 8/10
One time not two
never heard. 4 tracks on a 41-min album. interesting. I respect exotic, worldly music/genres but I won't go out of my way. This is cool. I respect it. Just not for me.
Eh more boring prog rock i'm not really into. 4/10
Now this is the weird shit I've been waiting for. Never heard of Can before but I love this type of music. It feels very ahead of it's time. I span this a couple of times today and will do so again as it was a trip. Keep this stuff coming. 3.5⭐️
Naja
At this point, Can is mostly interested in dabbling with the arcane art of making ambient soundscapes that they flirted with on earlier releases. Is it a successful endeavour? You can say so. It starts with the self-titled track, which already tells us that these guys aren't here to fuck around. Future Days is a proto-Stereolab ambient banger, with a good use Damo's vocals, who have now been reduced to a part of the instrumental collage across the entire album, rather than being a main point of emphasis. Spray is a funky percussion heaven. The use of multiple percussion instruments weave this tribal rhythm into Jaki Liebezeit's phenomenal tour de force performance. Moonshake is the shortest, and the most faithful track to the original formula of the early music of Can. Here, Czukay's bass shines bright, with its metallic twang and murky, deep sound. Bel Air is the longest track. Touching on the main characteristics of ambient music with a dash of experimentation in a "Can way" (even managing to sound like The Rolling Stones and The Velvet Underground at moments), it's a blissful experience to listen to. Claustrophobic and wide open, with a lot of optimism inside it. Can successfully pushed the envelope on this one, with Future Days now being hailed as a benchmark album most artists only dream of making. It's a shame that the band's future days weren't as prolific though.
If nothing else, this sensation will be something completely different for your ears, but this is an experimental album even for an experimental album. Facebook Track: "Moonshake".
Best Track - "Future Days"
Quite good! Some gnarly prog rock.
Can grooved, so Radiohead and Portishead could funk
Such a fun ride
Interesting background music but slightly too interesting to work to.
Sounds like Brian Eno meets Pink Floyd
4/10
You can see how they influenced Radiohead. Really interesting stuff here - some of the more Ambient tracks aren’t for me but the production is impressive especially for its time.
Much better than I expected a Krautrock album to be! Some really nice moments in this. They're unfortunately a bit buried in overlong songs that can feel quite frustrating to listen to. Challenging for me personally, but a lot of merit to this one.
I guess it’s alright - I don’t really care for psychedelic music anymore
The songs are long but fun and funky in their own distended way.
The opening band the headliner loves because his buddy is the bass player.
Never heard of Can before. What an odd and unique experience. Experimental soundscapes aplenty.
Weird and fun. Not something I'd listen to unless I was in the mood, but sounds great considering how long ago it was recorded.
ok
3.5
3.5
I thought based on the first couple minutes that this would one of those albums that’s just a collection of BS ambient noise passed of as a lazy attempt for art, but this group proved me wrong. This is an incredible ambient album, they were so good at creating mood an emotion without words, I’m very impressed.
I enjoyed this, listened twice. It definitely didn’t sound like it was made in the early 70’s - very modern sound, in a great way. There were a few moments when the fast, repetitive beat poked my nerves in an unpleasant way and made me come out of the listening experience a bit. It was really just the last 4 minutes of the last song. Otherwise very enjoyable and cool. I will check out their other albums
Too odd for my tastes, but not in an offensive way unlike many experimental albums.
I like some of Can’s music but this album wasn’t my favorite.
First song good. Need to listen more.
tone-setting theme music for the hotshot detective to ruminate on the clues he's gathered so far in the big case. but also kind of trouble man. but also kind of a credits-roll whispery jam session. don't hate it! favorite is Moonshake, it's pretty tight as an actual bite-sized song
Rating: 7/10 Future Days is technically great but something isn’t clicking for me to really love it after two listens. Hypnotically flowing passages that can be played pleasantly in the background but also can be listened to closely for its intricacies. And of course, definitely made to trip to.
Neat but a little forgettable. It has layers, like an onion, but I also don't want to listen to it twice, also much like an onion. If I had to really dig for essential, I COULD SEE how it might be a vertebra in the backbone of all space rock made in the last 20 years, but yeah 5.8/10
Rating this only 1 star more than We're Only In It For the Money feels criminal, but I can't justify a bump to 3 stars. Just a mediocre boring album. 4 Laminated Denims out of 10 Lizard Wizards
I was unfamiliar with this and listened through twice. It didn't leave much of an impression unfortunately.
It's repetitive but not boring. Except the last song. That's just way too long. Favorite song: Moonshake
Fritação massa, embora eu não me importe tanto com essa banda
- Mmm, verwarrend allemaal. - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummer al toegevoegd aan MMMM
never heard this before , it’s great and incredibly ahead of it’s time . 4
meh
Interesting but not totally arresting. I love me some prog. There are some really interesting sounds here. Quite often it felt like I was listening to a soundscape type album from this century so I guess it's a little ahead of its time. In general though it didn't make a huge impression on me the couple of times I listened through. Maybe one to try again with
I loveeee long songs like this. Yeah sure, the whole 3-4 minute formula will always work, but taking a song being progressive to the next level is just an amazing experience. You can really fully explore everything that's going on and it really feels like there's no limit to how deeply you can layer different sounds and instruments.
I didn't listen to this whole thing, just kinda browsed here and there.
Krautrock at its best
Better than the Can album we had last week (lots of tight groupings lately!) but still not really for more. Gauzy and forgettable.
Sounds like a prelude to Radiohead. Not as psychedelic as the other album we heard but it also doesn’t derail into terrible noise.
Great music to have on in the background while I worked but u don’t think it could truly hold my attention alone.
Love
CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN
This just didn't really do much for me. I generally enjoy more ambient and experimental music, but this one just didn't click. I'll have to give it another shot at some point.
Anxiety-inducing experimental bing bong oo ah. Not my cup of tea at all.
The third of three magnificent albums by the Krautrock pioneers, "Future Days" is a hypnotic, rhythmically centered musical masterwork built around the title track and the closing "Bel Air." Few bands are able to create tracks of double digit minute length that hold your attention, but Can is one. A great album that may be Can's best.
Very light listening with the exception of the drums. Mostly an instrumental. Hard to recall the songs after listening.
Love a bit of Can
Mindblowingly ahead of its time!
see, i did need to hear this before i died.
Love Can. Great album by them. Definitely not for everyone. But the friggin groove on Future Days is so good.
Weirdly captivating album…
Well that got under my skin, into my head and down to my feat
Music in the loosest possible sense of the word. Wanted to pierce my own eardrums after two songs.
There's a primal feel to this that humanizes the electronics. Not easy to listen to in places but I can see how it influences a lot of music that followed.
This was more atmospheric than I would have thought.
Tämähän oli menevää progea! Ei huono 4/5
Aivan kelpo progelevy
Wieso gehört dieses Album in diese Sammlung ???
Interesting experimental stuff.
This is a remarkable album given how old it is. You can hear so much future music in it. To the point where it makes some other stuff that was “breakthrough” in the 90s and 2000s feel derivative!
I liked the exploratory nature of the album. The band is taking some risks and it mostly comes off. Overall, it was good. 3/5 Might listen again
I sort of like this and I sort of can't be bothered with it. 3/5.
I’ve listened to this several times over the years. It’s very good but doesn’t grab me; it doesn’t stick. Four songs, one of which, the 20 minute “Bel Air” fills side two. Prog rock? Krautrock? It’s certainly progressive, ambient, jazzy and funky, but not really in a jazz or funk sense. At times it is reminiscent of Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way, at others King Crimson. The rhythm section are excellent, particularly the drumming. The drones and extended chords, and Damo Suzuki’s weirdly laconic vocalisations, are interesting. I like the album, I’m just not sure it’s ever going to grab me.
I had no idea what to expect from this album. Right away I was hooked. I was impressed by the amount of instruments and the variety of them. I was not disappointed as the music started and everything from chill, dreamy, ethereal songs, to funky bass, drum driven, and electronic futuristic sound effects filled my ears. My favorite song is the longest, Bel Air, and my least favorite is the very short Moonshake. Overall a great album!
Dope album but again, songs too long
Pretty good, will have to go on my interesting albums list.
3.2
Hypnotic and ahead of its time. Not something I’ll revisit in full anytime soon, but I enjoyed the forward-thinking arrangements and sprawl while it lasted. The vocals being mixed so low is a stand-out choice. I’d be interested in learning how they approached making this record, especially the 19+ minute closing track.
Dlaczego ta lista mi to robi? Ciągle zarzuca mnie nudnymi, długimi, często instrumentalnymi utworami, które nie tylko nudzą, ale i denerwują? Momenty z wokalem bywały piękne, ale no 40 minut muzyki zamkniętej w czterech utworach to nie moja bajka. Ja jestem prostą dziewczyną, lubię jak kawałek mieści się w dłoni. 5/10.
Some lush sounds here and there across the album, but I think there's just not enough merits to justify it's length.
Never heard them before, and doubt I will ever again Being said not the worst album ... Appreciate talented musicians, tho
Ritmoso, psicodelico y tenebroso, es como un sueño lucido acelerado en plano secuencia
Weird style of music, but I like it
It’s just a bit dull over the length of an album. Fine to soundtrack my walk to work but nothing that I’d actively listen to.
If the words “experimental” and German” are in the same sentence and don’t put the fear of God into you… well, it should.
This was odd. At times it sounded extremely 1970s and at other times very modern. The vocals, set back so much in the mix, frequently reminded me of Gorilliaz, but then Spray reminded me of Yes. John Peel, quote about Moonshake is fantastic - it was "great", but its chances of becoming a hit were "roughly comparable to his chances of being asked to join Ivy Benson's All-Girl Orchestra on harp". Everything except Moonshake could have benefited from a good trim to get to a sensible song length, especially Bel Air. I'm starting to develop a new aversion to records where one entire side of the vinyl was dedicated to a single song. Their sound weirdly started to grow on me a bit over the course of the record, so I think this would have been a 2.5 had I been allowed half stars. I'm rounding down though because no song needs to be 20 minutes long. 2/5
It's alright. It's not something I'd put on on my own. Ugh I can't with these 20 minute songs. I'm not going to get through this.
Prima achtergrondmuziek
Not my kind of music
Yawn
Can’t
very groovy!
Not my favourite Can record but it’s still Can.
What even is this?
I just started listening to Can within the past year. They were a German experimental rock band that blended elements of krautrock, psychedelia, funk, samba, musique concrète, and space rock. They employed many ambient elements, aiming for hazy soundscapes inspired by diverse ethnic backgrounds. Their fourth album, Future Days, tapped into that cultural zeitgeist. Across three beefy tracks and one conventional song, the band was in a grooving pocket of ethereal textures. Jaki Liebezeit's polyrhythmic play alongside the soft electric guitar and bass lines maintained a level of engagement without being too overbearing in the mix. I liked the touches of organ and electric piano from Irmin Schmidt, tingling around certain passages to simulate the drifting atmosphere. Then there's Damo Suzuki's vocals, hypnotic and entrancing as he sprawled through lyrics of disillusionment and existential wonderment. All these elements harmonize into this minimalist yet expansive soundscape. Even with the more standard funk rock affair of "Moonshake", the incorporation of collected sound recordings and Suzuki's hazy delivery made for a rather otherworldly listen. The more I thought about it, Future Days went down rather smoothly. Not a moment felt wasted or prolonged. I felt thoroughly engaged throughout the runtime, particularly in the several movements of "Bel Air", as the captured sound of wind flowed through my ears. I have no complaints; therefore, this record comes highly recommended.
Well, this is all kinds of awesome. It was released in 1973 but still sounds startlingly contemporary and timeless, ranging from dreamy ambient flow states to full on freakouts, with metronomic drum beats, electronic sound effects, abstract vocal stylings and noodling keyboards in the mix. Parts of this genuinely sound like trip-hop dance music released this year. With typical boneheaded reductionism this got labeled as simply ‘Krautrock’ by the UK music press but there’s a lot more going on here than just a motorik beat. Can-tastic!
A fun and experimental album that has shades of the future. They don’t seem to be limited by time, song structure or much else.
I really hate to write this album off as just "boring", but that's the only word I could find for it after its conclusion. I did not inherently hate it, but I was not inspired or entertained by it either.
Too prog. Not enough rock
Lots of 9 min just music songs, not really my type.
That was decent. The vocals sounded too far away for half the album though. Odd choice. Bel Air was the best song.
Not my vibe
trippy prog
I could only listen to the final track on the album (that's all youtube would allow me to hear). It was ok. It went on a bit though, 20 fucking minutes to be precise. Feels weird trying to rate an album on one 20 minute track. I'll give it a 3, can't say fairer than that.
listed while doing HW. i don't really remember too much so i'm just going to give it 5 stars. i think it was good but idk. i'll give it 4 stars for now. actually 5. idk.
German Krautrock group Can. Not at all what I imagined when I read that description prior to listening. More psychedelic abstract rock, but very mild. +1 for being made in 1972. 3/5
idgaf
40 mins, 4 songs, longest experience to get through. Didn’t grab my attention, still a good flow just boring.
Had never heard of Can. Really enjoyed this.
classic
Vähän pitkästyttävä levy. Pitkiä kappaleita joissa ei oikein tapahdu mitään. Lähes kokonaan instrumentaalista rokkia. Parhaat: Moonshake
Only 4 tracks? Interesting rhythms, doesn't sound like it's from the 70s. Could have done without the vocals, 2*
Very strange and a harder listen other than Moonshine but certainly interesting 3.5
Kraut Rock excellence!
3.5 / 5 I really enjoyed this, but it's not something that will ever make it on to my repeat list. Experimental and immersive, but not compelling enough for me to want to come back to it. Glad to have heard it, though.
Enjoyable, and groundbreaking at the time. Nowadays, yes...it's good, but we've all use to Krautrock/
7/10
My first time listening to Can. And it was fun! Could be considered background music but one that you actually notice and dance a little to 3/5
relatively small album trackwise (i.e. 4 songs) but the 40 minute run time combines hypnotic grooves with extensive textures that flow over the groovy sounds that reflect influences from soul, funk, rock, and other genres. A relatively chill album, it's a nice listen.
Pretty cool
Super interesting and experimental. Fun to have as background while working but not super my type of thing.