''The Future'' is the second studio album by American rock band

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. The album was released on April 20, 2018. It is the first studio album by the band after the departure of lead vocalist Chris Musser and drummer Tim D'Onofrio, introducing Danny Case and

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as the new vocalist and drummer. Promotional singles for the album, "

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" and "Broken", were released before the official album release.

Background

In February 2016, From Ashes to New released their first album ''

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''. While on tour for ''Day One'', lead singer Chris Musser and drummer Tim D’Onofrio left the band. At the time, From Ashes to New had not started writing ''The Future''. Danny Case was chosen as the new lead singer while

, who temporarily played with the band during a 2016 tour, became their new drummer. In February 2018, the album's title and release date were announced.

Writing

In previous From Ashes to New works, keyboardist Matt Brandyberry primarily wrote the band's songs. However, on ''The Future'', the rest of the band joined Brandyberry and contributed to the writing stage. Case mentioned to MusicExistence that he believed that From Ashes to New had a quarter of the album done before he and Madiro joined the band as their new members.

Recording

From Ashes to New recorded ''The Future'' alongside Grant McFarland and Carson Slovak at Atrium Audio. McFarland and Slovak were co-writers and co-producers of the band's previous album ''

''. For ''The Future'', the duo was joined by producer

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who was a co-writer of "Nowhere to Run".

Promotion

On February 1, 2018, the lyric video for the band's first single "

" was released. A month later, a music video for "Crazy" came out on March 3. From Ashes to New's second single "Broken" debuted with a lyric video on March 9 before the release of ''The Future'' on April 20. An accompanying music video for "Broken" premiered on August 14 months after ''The Future'' came out.

Tour

In August 2018, From Ashes to New announced a tour of the United States to be held from September 16 to October 14, 2018.

Reception

Neil Z. Yeung of ''

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'' felt ''The Future'' was a mixture of the band's previous genres with addition of electronic music. In a more mixed review, Sam Law of ''

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'' felt the mixture of genres sounded "more like the product of some considered planning meeting than textured, individual personalities" and gave the album three out of five.

Track listing

#"Wake Up" – 3:50 #"

" – 3:05 #"My Name" – 3:42 #"Gone Forever" – 3:54 #"Broken" – 3:20 #"Forgotten" – 3:50 #"Enemy" – 3:16 #"Nowhere to Run" – 3:34 #"Let Go" – 3:53 #"On My Own" – 3:22 #"The Future" – 3:45

Personnel

* Danny Case –

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, clean vocals, acoustic guitar * Matt Brandyberry –

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, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, programming * Lance Dowdle – lead guitar, bass guitar *

– drums, percussion Production *

- producer *Grant McFarland - co producer ,engineering *Carson Slovak - co producer, engineering *Josh Wilbur - mixing *Kyle McAulay - assistant engineering *

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- mastering *Rob McDermott - Exucutive producer *Adam Serrano - Art direction Additional musicians *Rowan Brandyberry - backing vocals *Roan Brooks - backing vocals *Gerald Brown - backing vocals *Makaila Kecki - backing vocals *Mia Kecki - backing vocals

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Future (From Ashes to New album), The 2018 albums From Ashes to New albums