Can - Future Days -1973- Remaster -2005- Flac -... __exclusive__ <PRO – Roundup>
The album's opening track, "Sing Swan Song," sets the tone for the record, with Irmin Schmidt's soaring vocals and poetic lyrics accompanied by the band's intricate instrumentation. The song's dreamy, psychedelic quality is balanced by the driving rhythms of "North," which showcases Jaki Liebezeit's innovative drumming and Holger Czukay's melodic bass lines.
The "hit," if CAN ever had one. It’s the only track with a conventional structure, but the remaster reveals how much noise is buried underneath the pop melody. The percussion is crisp, snapping with a tightness that defined the "Motorik" beat, even if Liebezeit was always more polyrhythmic than his Krautrock peers. CAN - Future Days -1973- Remaster -2005- FLAC -...
By 1973, Can had moved away from the darker, more aggressive improvisations of their early years. Future Days is characterized by a "sunny," aqueous sound. The title track sets the tone immediately: Jaki Liebezeit’s drumming is no longer a driving force but a shimmering, complex pulse, while Holger Czukay’s bass provides a deep, melodic anchor. Michael Karoli’s guitar work and Irmin Schmidt’s keyboards blend into a hazy, tropical wash that predates the "ambient" movement by years. Damo Suzuki’s Swan Song The album's opening track, "Sing Swan Song," sets
Jaki Liebezeit did not play beats; he played sculptures of time . His hi-hat and snare interactions have micro-delays of a few milliseconds. Lossy codecs blur these transients into a muddy smear. In FLAC, every rim click and ghost note snaps into sharp, organic relief. It’s the only track with a conventional structure,
For a track like "Sing Swan Song," the layered overdubs of Suzuki’s voice create a hallucinogenic choir. FLAC preserves the phase coherence of those layers. In MP3, they collapse into phasey mush.
“Future Days Remastered: The Sonic Horizon of CAN (1973 / 2005 FLAC)”
Mastered from the original stereo tapes, this version was released as a Hybrid SACD and in high-quality FLAC digital formats. 18.118.48.30