New Future City Radio
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| Released | July 28, 2023 | |||
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| Length | 39:42 | |||
| Label | International Anthem | |||
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New Future City Radio is a collaborative studio album by American musicians Damon Locks and Rob Mazurek. It was released on July 28, 2023 through International Anthem.[1]
The album is composed of eighteen songs in the structure of a mixtape consisting of radio sounds, snippets of instrumental tracks and voiceovers.[1] It is the first collaborative album by Locks and Mazurek, who collaborated on several other projects including Exploding Star Orchestra. The album's first single, "Yes", was released on May 23, 2023, alongside a music video directed by Locks and animated by Rob Shaw.[2]
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork | 6.9/10[1] |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
Pitchfork described the album as imagining "a clandestine broadcast from a not-so-distant future, playing up pirate radio's utopian impulse in order to raise alarm bells about the present."[1] Uncut Magazine noted that "the whole album, across a wildly varied and genuinely unique 18 tracks, feels like tuning in to some kind of revolutionary post-apocalyptic radio station."[4] AllMusic stated that New Future City Radio "addresses important questions about notions of community in the 21st century. It offers possibilities to learn, a collective resistance to injustice and oppression, and the potential to learn how to disseminate information, among themselves and over unregulated radio waves."[3]