CLARION void release ‘Failure in repetition’
We are super excited to release the new album by Clarion Void ‘Failure In Repetition’ available now on vinyl and digital. Check it out on the label’s bandcamp or wherever you listen to music.
Lost future’s music of the year
As 2023 draws to a close and we celebrate our one year anniversary, a bunch of the bands here on the label picked their favorite albums and songs, presented below.
Ben Kaplan - Sleep Maps / Lost Future founder
Mario Infantes
Michael Stipe - Babel Map
Brian Horn - Ghosts of Searchlight
Marcus Storch - Flourish
Bryan Webb - Clarion Void
lost future discord
Lost Future Records now has a Discord channel where you can chat with bands, watch live streams, submit for consideration and just hang out with a bunch of cool musicians. Come say hi.
https://discord.gg/JkFpRSuDYj
babel map joins lost future
We are super thrilled to announce that Harrisburg, PA based Babel Map have joined Lost Future for an upcoming 2024 release. Their 2023 album CANCEL THIS! was one of our favorites of the year and we can’t wait to bring you more music from the band.
Flourish joins lost future
We are very happy to announce that Ohio based shoegazers Flourish have joined the Lost Future label for an upcoming 2024 release.
oak, ash & thorn release new 7 inch ep ‘eternal’
Colorado paganists Oak, Ash & Thorn have released their newest single on a 7 inch disc available on all streaming services and at the Lost Future bandcamp.
Object as subject release new album heretic
The new album by Philadelphia based singer, musician and composer Paris Hurley is now available on all streaming services and at the Lost Future bandcamp page.
Object As subject share new song “Monsoon”
Philadelphia based electro industrial collective Object As Subject release new video for first single MONSOON off their forthcoming album HERETIC, due out May 12
Harboured share video for impermanent cell
Denver black metal band Harboured have shared the first video for their song ‘Impermanent Cell’ from their forthcoming self titled debut album on Lost Future Records, out March 17. The video was directed by Kyle Lamar.
Sleep Maps finishes recording new album ‘Reclaim Chaos’
After a year of writing post-metal outfit Sleep Maps has finished recording their 5th LP. Expected to release in late 2023.
After a year of writing post-metal outfit Sleep Maps has finished recording their 5th LP. Expected to release in late 2023.
Oak, Ash & Thorn join Lost Future
Colorado black metal stalwarts join the Lost Future roster with a new 7 inch single ‘Eternal’ out this spring with an EP to follow in late 2023.
Colorado black metal stalwarts join the Lost Future roster with a new 7 inch single ‘Eternal’ out this spring with an EP to follow in late 2023.
Harboured releases first single ‘Atlas to Fall’
Denver progressive Black Metal quartet Harboured share the first single today via Metal Insider from their forthcoming debut album.
Denver progressive Black Metal quartet Harboured share the first single today via Metal Insider from their forthcoming debut album. Hear and share "Atlas To Fall" HERE and via Bandcamp HERE and Spotify HERE.
The self-titled debut from Harboured is the opening statement of a band that already sounds like they are in their prime. Manic breakbeats paired with progressive metal riffs and melody are the band’s bread and butter, but they are not afraid of slipping into a more experimental sound on these 6 tracks. Opener “Anterior" uses synths and chanted vocals to set the stage for the next 35 minutes of absolutely brutal music. Guitarists Michael Stancel (Allegaeon) and Nick Hennig (Vimana) use a dual guitar approach to create walls of sound and intricate harmonies, while drummer Cierra White (Oak, Ash & Thorn) plays some of the most technically challenging material in modern metal. Bassist Brandon Michael (Allegaeon) completes the sound with his signature low end shredding. The result is a confident album that sounds well beyond the first outing for a band.
Formed in the bowels of the pandemic lockdown, Michael Stancel was looking to collaborate with friends in the Denver area on a new black metal project, one that could take the intricate guitar work he refined in Allegaeon and move into a less technical but no less powerful sound. He recruited White (Oak, Ash & Thorn) on drums, and Hennig (Vimana) on guitar to help develop the crushing sounds he had been creating on his own. Finally, he enlisted long-time Allegaeon bandmate Brandon Michael on bass and completed the quartet. The band recorded their debut self-titled LP with producer/engineer Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City) at his Oakland based studio, Anti-Sleep.
Harboured will be available on LP, CD and digital on March 17th, 2023 via Lost Future Records. Preorders are available HERE.
LF Favorite Albums 2022
Its the time of year when I get to rant on and on about the music I really loved in the hope of bringing a little bit of exposure to some bands that I felt deserved it. All these albums were on repeat for me at various points in 2022 and
Its the time of year when I get to rant on and on about the music I really loved in the hope of bringing a little bit of exposure to some bands that I felt deserved it. All these albums were on repeat for me at various points in 2022 and helped shape the year that was. Hope you find something you like!
Best Songs 2022 Spotify Playlist
Combine shoegaze, post rock, alt rock and metal with some black metal vocal touches and you get Holy Fawn. This is an epic album crossing genres and classifications that moves from beautiful instrumental passages to meditative ambient sections to all out head banging, sometimes in one song. If this is the future of post - whatever, I am all in for it. Sit back and let it absorb you.
This is a one-man band from San Diego who builds all his own bespoke midi controllers. They are designed like machines to contstrict his limbs, wrap around his throat, and generally challenge him physically to convey a sense of the difficulty of the artist and the machine oriented world we have built for ourselves. This is the most listenable album from the Author and Punisher project, partially because of the inclusion of collaborators like Danny Carey and Perturbator, but also because the album is full of 90s era hooks and harmonies run through the Punisher machine but you can actually sing along.
Amos Roddy - Citizen Sleeper OST
Citizen Sleeper is a game about being stranded on a space station with a limited time to live. You make connections with others on the station and help them solve their problems, but ultimately your goal is to go back to the stars. The soundtrack evokes this feeling of loneliness in every note and in every beat while somehow also projecting the fantastic dream of space and its myriad possibilities. Alternately melancholy and hopeful, ambient and beat driven. Best soundtrack of the year for sure.
Jean Jean was top of the list a few years ago, and their follow up album is also an amazing, and too short, collection of Soulwax inspired dance music using a minimal palette of guitar, synths and live drums. The energy is undeniable and the high points of these songs genuinely make me feel ‘the lift’ that so many artists try to find. Best driving around at night music.
This Swiss band has been combining soul vocals with black metal for a couple records, but I think this year’s offering was the ultimate realization of their sound. Haunting and brutal both in instrumentation and vocal delivery. Real headbanging stuff.
Deserta - Every Moment, Everything You Need
This is a shoegaze band from LA who I initially wrote off as good, not great, but this album stayed in my head and I kept listening over and over. Before I knew it I was hooked and I realized it was the definition of a ‘grower’ of a record. One that makes you remember various parts of it while brushing your teeth or putting on pants. And when I would remember some riff or melody that I really liked, I would spin it one more time.
The Allegorist - Blind Emperor
The project of Anna Jordan, a Berlin based electronic artist, The Allegorist makes dark ambient dance music about the collapse of civilization. Without vocals she is free to explore the soundtrack to this dystopian reality and let the listener supply the narrative. I know I wrote one in my head over the many listens I gave this record and I bet you would too.
Hands down the best album by an ex punk drummer turned gay cowboy crooner you will hear all year.
A beautiful jazz album with electronic elements that features Heidel’s saxophone playing in new and unique ways. The production here is on point and every song has a warm sound that invites you in for multiple listens. Best album to play with your morning coffee.
Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
These guys were one of the main hype bands of the year, showing up at #1 on many lists from respectable publications, and for good reason. This is the weirdest ‘indie pop’ album i’ve heard. Anchored by an amazing vocalist and a fantastic producer, there is nothing off limits for this group. They want to drop a beat into a ballad? No prob. They want to end the album with a straight up dubstep dance song? Ok sure. This album also has the song of the year for me in ‘Concrete Over Water’, an astonishing piece that moves easily from ballad to glitch hop over 6 minutes.
LF Favorite albums of 2021
Check out my new fancy website! Now I have a real place to talk about all the awesome music you should have listened to during the year (in addition to all the great releases on our little label here).
Check out my new fancy website! Now I have a real place to talk about all the awesome music you should have listened to during the year (in addition to all the great releases on our little label here). Without further ado!
GLOW ON by TURNSTILE
This is an unabshedly fun album full of amazing hooks, great guitar riffs, banging drums and a enough surprise moments to keep me interested every listen. From the absolute best rock song of the year in HOLIDAY to the weird 80s Duran Duran inspired NEW HEART DESIGN the album rocks from front to back and makes you move at the same time. There were a ton of really serious albums this year about how terrible everything is, but it was this uplifting and inspiring album which kept me going through some tough periods.
2. The Apple Drop by Liars
Liars are a band I have listened to for many years and stayed interested in, mainly because every album is a different aspect of frontman Angus Andrews strange musical sensibilities. This year’s Apple Drop combines elements of previous releases but also weaves in a level of listenability that has previously not been a concern. The result is the most cohesive and enjoyable album from the band.
3. Spiral by DARKSIDE
My love of Nicholas Jaar is well documented over the last ten years of writing these lists. He is consistently the most inspiring DJ and producer for me, whether he is working with FKA Twigs, making remixes for Florence and the Machine or writing his own experimental sound collages. Darkside is his collaboration with the guitarist David Harrington and together they made my fave album of 2013, Psychic. This follow up is many many years in the making (and we probably have to thank COVID that it happened at all) and it does not disappoint. Songs like Lawmaker and Spiral are classic Darkside while other songs like Liberty Bell and Inside is Out There take a more dancey and relaxed approached to their sound, maybe inspired by Jaar’s more recent work under the moniker Against All Logic. The end result is another trip through Jaar’s mind into the darker corners of electronic music.
4. HEY WHAT by Low
Hey What sounds like the direct sequel to 2018’s Double Negative which is a good thing. That was an incredible album full of out of this world production from BJ Burton and this album follows nicely in its footsteps. BJ is once again the producer, Low once again sings about the inherent dread in every day life events and they create soundscapes somewhere between ambient haze and noise addled anxiety. The final song, The Price You Pay, is an absolute stunner that wraps up the whole album and 2021 in general.
5. Fire by The Bug
Absolute bangers from British producer and musician Kevin Martin. He employs some well known and lesser known names from the UK grime and drill scene and gets them all to turn in amazing performances. This album hooked me more than any rap album I can think of mainly because of the frightening post-apocalyptic vision of the world of the future that it conjures up. Sirens wail, bombs drop, people are screaming and running in the streets and we are all witnessing the beginning of it through Martin’s lens of synths and drums.
6. Vanities by W.H. Lung
The last album that this 5 piece from the UK made was overlooked when they released it a few years back. Their follow up is an even more confident and assured album of dream pop and krautrock that hits all the right feelings. Lead singer Tom Sharkett’s voice is on point and the band backing him up moves through all these songs with a professional demeanor that belies their young age and minimal output so far. The songs Showstopper and Somebody Like have both been on repeat for me since the album released months ago.
7. For the first time by Black Country, New Road
When I first heard this album it sounded like it came from some long lost 80s minimal wave compilation of lost gems. The band truly conjures the post-everything songwriting and production of those old releases in new and interesting ways. They are already releasing a follow up in the same year so they are proving to be a prolific voice in the UK post-punk scene.
8. G_d’s Pee AT STATES END! by GY!BE
Way back in 2001 when I was first introduced to Lift Yer Skinny Fists by Godspeed You! Black Emperor it was one of the most life changing albums of my entire life. I had never heard of post-rock, the genre that I mainly write in now, and had never seen something as ambitious and epic in scope as what this band had done on that album. As the progenitors of the genre they have now been copied many times by many bands all looking for that same mojo. I actually include the band themselves in that group because since that album GYBE has sounded like a band trying to recapture the magic of that time, but never quite succeeding, however this year’s album feels like they finally got it back. The songs are more composed than previous releases and the band feels cohesive again. The inclusion of radio messages and found sounds only helps add to the same feeling I got all those years ago.
9. Luminol by Midwife
This is a pretty strange choice for me, since it doesn’t fit in nicely with what I am usually drawn to, but when this album released I was working hard on a TBA album and it was the perfect counterpoint to what I was writing. Quiet and minimal in all the best ways, with moments of energy that release all that pent up energy is what this one woman band focuses on. Songs like God is a Cop take their time to evolve and develop, anchored by the telephone like vocals of frontwoman Madeline Johnston. This was another album made during quarantine and one of the only ones that manages to encapsulate that terrible feeling from early 2020.
10. Agor by Koreless
A late addition to my list this year, but when I saw it listed on Bleep’s list at #1 I had to give it a listen and I am very glad I did. This is as psychedelic as an electronic album can get. Subverting all my expectations and making me rethink what experimental electronic music can do. The precision and production of this record is impeccable and without equal this year. It sounds like someone took about 15 years to put this together and its painstaking in every drum hit, every synth beep and every cut up vocal. Madness.
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We are officially getting this website online and it will be the portal for all future Lost Future artists. Currently accepting submissions lostfuturemusic at gmail dot com
We are officially getting this website online and it will be the portal for all future Lost Future artists. Currently accepting submissions lostfuturemusic at gmail dot com