The Future Now makes Eno's Before and After Science and "Heroes" sound like amateurish music. Save for the disappointing opener, it has all that makes new wave good with almost none of the bad. There's aggression ("Energy Vampires"), balladry ("The Mousetrap") and pure experimentalism (the social critique of "Mediaevil", the calm chaos of "The Cut"), all bathed in unorthodox playing techniques, strange time signatures, minimalism and a sense of class, summed up on the closing "Palinarus (Castaway)".
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