The Future Will Come

VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! Although the Juan MacLean's debut album, Less Than Human, featured plenty of guest contributions, it was ostensibly a solo project from former Six Finger Satellite guitarist John MacLean.

The Future Will Come was constructed in a similar manner, and features a number of vocal and musical guests, including singer Nancy Whang and MacLean's DFA label boss James Murphy. The first single from the record, the ebullient techno-house hybrid "Happy House," was the first signifier of The Future Will Come's buoyant tone, and MacLean describes it as "a disco inflected Human League sounding record." Plenty of duets between MacLean and Whang feature, with the latter firmly establishing her role in the band during her time-off from touring with LCD Soundsystem.