The Future Now

Studio album by Peter Hammill

Released

September 1978

Recorded

18 March - 26 April 1978
Sofa Sound

Peter Hammill

Peter Hammill chronology

Over
(1977)

The Future Now
(1978)

pH7
(1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The Future Now is the 7th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1978. It was the first solo album Hammill released following the 1978 breakup of his band Van der Graaf Generator, although he had released numerous solo albums while VdGG were active. The album contains twelve short songs, several in the new wave style of VdGG's last studio album, The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, and their live album Vital.

The album cover shows a set of photographs by Brian Griffin portraying Peter Hammill with half of his moustache and beard shaven.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill.

"Pushing Thirty"
"The Second Hand"
"Trappings"
"The Mousetrap (Caught In)"
"Energy Vampires"
"If I Could"
"The Future Now"
"Still In The Dark"
"Mediaevil"
"A Motor-bike in Afrika"
"The Cut"
"Palinurus (Castaway)"

Bonus tracks: Recorded live at the All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, on 16 February 1978

"If I Could"
"The Mousetrap (Caught In)"

Personnel

Peter Hammill – guitars, vocals, keyboards, harmonica, electronics
David Jackson – saxophone (1, 2, 12)
Graham Smith – violin (5, 6, 12)

Technical

Pat Moran - engineer
Brian Griffin - photography

References

↑ Couture, François. The Future Now at AllMusic

External links

Peter Hammill's notes on the album

Peter Hammill
Studio albums	Fool's Mate (1971) Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973) The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974) In Camera (1974) Nadir's Big Chance (1975) Over (1977) The Future Now (1978) pH7 (1979) A Black Box (1980) Sitting Targets (1981) Enter K (1982) Loops and Reels (1983) Patience (1983) Skin (1986) And Close As This (1986) Spur of the Moment (1988) In a Foreign Town (1988) Out of Water (1990) The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) Fireships (1992) The Noise (1993) Roaring Forties (1994) X My Heart (1996) Sonix - Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996 (1996) Everyone You Hold (1997) This (1998) The Appointed Hour (1999) None of the Above (2000) What, Now? (2001) Unsung (2001) Clutch (2002) Incoherence (2004) Singularity (2006) Thin Air (2009) Consequences (2012) Other World (2014) All That Might Have Been (2014)
Live albums	The Margin (1985) Room Temperature (1990) There Goes the Daylight (1993) The Peel Sessions (1995) The Union Chapel Concert (1997) Typical (1999) The Margin + (2002) Veracious (2006) Pno Gtr Vox (2011) Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012)
Singles	Red Shift (1973) Birthday Special (1975) Crying Wolf (1977) If I Could (1978) The Polaroid (1979) My Experience (1981) Paradox Drive (1982) Film Noir (1983) Just Good Friends (1985) Painting by Numbers (1986) A Fix on the Mix (1992) ‎(CD, EP)
Live Video	In the Passionskirche (1992) Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
Compilation albums	Vision (1978) The Love Songs (1984) The Essential Collection (1986) The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993) The Calm (After the Storm) (1993) Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993) After the Show - A Collection (1996) Past Go: Collected (1996) The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
Collaborators	Judge Smith David Jackson Guy Evans John Ellis Nic Potter Roger Eno Stuart Gordon

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