The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Beats Per Minute	69%[10]
Kerrang!	[11]
The Line of Best Fit	9/10[12]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[13]
Stereoboard	[14]

The Future received a four-star rating from AllMusic, whose reviewer Fred Thomas commented that "the Armed gleefully close the door on whatever shreds of accessibility they dallied with on their last few albums before it, but this unrelenting barrage of excitement and glorious confusion is a welcome replacement."^[9] Jeremy Allen of The Quietus remarked that the album "scans like the angry offspring of Jenny Holzer and The Pop Group, a statement album title that doesn't hold back", calling it "formidable".^[15]

Stereogum described the album as "an album born from anger and frustration about the state of a world that has careened into dystopia on seemingly every front" and "the kind of album where you never know what kind of madness is about to materialize."^[16] Flood referred to it as the "most literal Armed album to date", calling it "as sequentially consistent as its predecessor was scattershot."^[1] Kerrang! assigned the album a rating of four out of five, calling it "a thrillingly unsubtle response" and "faster and more furious, glitchier and less easily digestible" in comparison to its predecessor.^[11] It was given a nine out of ten rating by British magazine The Line of Best Fit, which stated that the album's "unrelenting refusal to quit, like The Armed, makes it a sonic treat and proves the Detroit gang remain unstoppable."^[12]

Maddy Howell of Stereoboard gave the album four-star rating, calling it "an album that toys with the idea of attempting to fix things but ultimately decides we’re better off just watching it all burn."^[14] Alex Robert Ross, writing for Pitchfork, noted the album was "built around a barrage of blast beats, dissonant guitars, and feral vocal outbursts" and stated it was "billed as a spasmodic response to dehumanization and disaster."^[13] The publication rated the album 7.8 out of ten.^[13] John Amen of Beats Per Minute had a more mixed take on the album, writing, "The set highlights the band’s multifacetedness, offering moments of transcendent rage, but also feels cumulatively scattered, lacking an emotional axis or sense of sonic continuity".^[10]