ZZ Top La Futura
Released : 10th September 2012
Recorded @ The Foambox Recordings, Houston, Texas.
Label : American Recordings/SME Records
Format : Flac



The first ZZ Top album for nine years opens with the most remarkable rock'n'roll song of the year. Gotsta Get Paid is an adaptation not of some old blues or boogie, but of the Houston hip-hop classic 25 Lighters by DJ DMD with Lil' Keke and Fat Pat. It doesn't sound like hip-hop, naturally – it's reconfigured as a dirty, lazy, heavy groove, Billy Gibbons's growling guitar and voice front and centre. It's simply brilliant. In fact, their 15th album would sound amazing even if the songs weren't up to scratch – Gibbons and co-producer Rick Rubin have done a remarkable job in making the band sound both timely and timeless, and fiercer than at any time in their career. But the songs hit the mark pretty consistently, too: on Consumption, with its hiccups and pauses, ZZ Top sound like an engine coughing and spluttering and roaring into life; Chartreuse picks up where Tush left off; I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose You could have been buffed up for Eliminator, but is all the better for being unpolished. It's an unexpectedly wonderful return from an undervalued band. (Michael Hann
The Guardian, Thursday 6 September 2012 )



Tracklist :
1. Gotsta Get Paid 4:03
2. Chartreuse 2:57
3. Consumption 3:48
4. Over You 4:30
5. Heartache In Blue 4:09
6. Don't Wanna Lose, Lose, You 4:21
7. Flyin' High 4:17
8. It's To Easy Mañana 4:48
9. Big Shiny Nine 3:11
10. Have A Little Mercy 3:18



Personnel :
Billy Gibbons – Lead vocals, Guitars, Piano
Dusty Hill – Bass, Backing vocals
Frank Beard – Drums
Guests
James Harman - Harmonica