The Future's Void
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| Studio album by EMA | ||||
| Released | 2014 | |||
| Genre | Rock, folk-noise | |||
| Label | Matador Records | |||
| Producer | EMA | |||
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The Future's Void is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter and guitarist Erika M. Anderson (also known as EMA), former lead singer of the noise-folk band Gowns, released in the United States in 2014 under Matador Records. The album was included in best-of-the-year year-end lists including those by Rolling Stone[1] and The Daily Dot.[2]
Critical reception
In his best-albums-of-the-year write-up for dailydot.com, critic Ramon Ramirez wrote that "(EMA) wrote the year’s best record about the Internet. . . . What stars here is her centralized, astute songwriting. EMA followed up 2011’s critically acclaimed Past Life Martyred Saints with a navel-gazing passion project, and the best thing she’s done."[2] Meanwhile, Rolling Stone wrote in its own best-of-the-year note that "Erika M. Anderson made the best Nineties album of 2014 (if any of us were worried about technology and surveillance taking over our lives 20 years ago). Her follow-up to 2011's awesome Past Life Martyred Saints pulses, clangs and simmers—it's unsettling one moment, soothing the next and always a smartly satisfying listen."[1]
On his April 2014 review for Pitchfork, Mark Richardson gave the album a 7.4 rating, writing, "despite the lyrical clunkers and ill-advised production choices, The Future’s Void has the feel of a real statement, of an artist trying for something new even if she doesn’t always get there. And the EMA project is antithetical to the idea of perfection anyway, so combing through the messy whole to find the places of clarity and insight feels somehow appropriate."[3]
