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''La Futura'' is the fifteenth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, and its first in nine years, following ''Mescalero''. ''La Futura'' was recorded at The Foambox Recordings in Houston, Texas. The album title and album art were released on ZZ Top's homepage on 3 August at 11:45 a.m. The album was released on 11 September 2012 and contains 10 tracks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://zztop.com/news/90461 )〕 "We thought long and hard about what this album should be," Gibbons said in a press release. "We wanted to recall the directness of our early stuff but not turn our backs on contemporary technology. The result of this melting of the past and the present is, of course, ''La Futura''."〔 Four of the new tracks--"I Gotsta Get Paid", "Chartreuse", "Consumption" and "Over You"--were first released on 5 June 2012 as an iTunes-only collection titled ''Texicali'', which met with strong sales and glowing reviews. ''Music Radar'' summed up the tunes as "fresh, vital roadhouse blues." Another track, "Flyin' High", appropriately made its world premiere in space, when the then-unfinished song was played on board a Soyuz spacecraft during its launch to the International Space Station in June 2011 at the request of the NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, a long-time ZZ Top fan and friend. Two bonus tracks, entitled "Threshold of a Breakdown" and "Drive-By Lover" were released on CDs sold exclusively at Best Buy stores. ==Reception== Following its release, the album received mostly positive reviews. William Clark of ''Guitar International'' wrote, "La Futura is an impressive return to form for this infamous southern rock trio, and includes some of the best music ZZ Top has ever pushed out."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=ZZ Top Rocks On La Futura )〕 Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic also praised the album, calling it their best album since ''Eliminator'' in 1983, while writing that "ZZ Top are celebrating everything that they've taken for granted for decades - they're embracing the sleazy boogie, the dirty jokes, the locomotive riffs, the saturated blues, the persistent lecherous leer, and by doing so they finally sound like themselves again."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La Futura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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