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"Give Me the Future" by Bastille

 Give Me The Future - Album by Bastille | Spotify

Welcome back to Thrak Attack, what's your adventure? And welcome to the first week of Music Monday! Every Monday will be a new review of an album released the previous Friday. This week's album is "Give Me the Future" by Bastille so let's jump right into the review!

Bastille has been around since 2013 and has released four albums in that span and many hits (although none of them overshadowing "Pompeii"). They've had a very impressive career already and was wary that their time has come for them to fade into music history... until I heard this album.

Most indie pop groups have one dimensional albums with one dimensional concepts but that is not the case with "Give Me the Future". Every track on this album brings new ideas and perspectives on the concept this album has. The concept of this album revolves around the future, not the future that we are currently living in but the past dreams of the future from authors like Aldous Huxley, L. Frank Baum, and Phillip K. Dick. Dreams of a future much grander and peaceful than the current state of the world. Every track adds to this idea and at the end of the album you realize we should go back to sleep and keep dreaming of a better future, because this is not it.

"No Bad Days" dreams of a place where one can live in peace with no bad days. "Brave New World (interlude)" reminds of the ideas in Huxley's novel of the same title which leads into "Back to the Future" that specifically references it. "Plug in..." reminds us of how electronics are making us unable to sleep well and enjoy ourselves, and the album goes on.

Not only does the concept seep through every aspect of the album and every track, but the album sounds great too! My two favorites are "Back to the Future" and "Club 57". 

When reviewing albums I give a 5 star average of the track listing and then additional stars for production, aesthetic, musicianship, concept, and overall feeling.

"Give Me the Future" by Bastille gets a perfect 10. 

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