ZZ Top Release Their First Album In Nine Years - Noise11.com
Billy Gibbons, Noise11, SXSW 2012, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Billy Gibbons, SXSW 2012, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

ZZ Top Release Their First Album In Nine Years

by Music-News.com on August 31, 2012

in News

The first new studio album from ZZ Top in nine years is LA FUTURA, set for release 10th September by American Recordings/Mercury Records.

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top - image By Ros O'Gorman

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top - image By Ros O'Gorman

The album harks back to the hallmark raw sound of the band’s formative years and will, inevitably, be considered a return to form on multiple levels.

LA FUTURA, produced by Rick Rubin and Billy F Gibbons, the band’s guitarist/singer, finds the legendary group infusing the newly recorded work with the electric blues/roots approach that typified ZZ Top’s earliest work while, at the same time, reaching for new sonic horizons. At its fundament, this is the incarnation of the band whose influence resonates today with such artists as The Black Keys, Jack White, Queens of the Stone Age and many others.

Now celebrating their 42nd year with the same line-up, Gibbons along with bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard have come up with ten tracks that reflect the band’s intuitive take on rock brought to new, sometimes surreal, plateaus.

‘We thought long and hard about what this album should be,’ commented Gibbons. ‘We wanted to recall the directness of our early stuff but not turn our backs on contemporary technology. The result of this melding of the past and the present is, of course, LA FUTURA.’

ZZ Top are currently on an extensive tour of European concert halls and festivals that kicked off earlier this week at Moscow’s Crocus Hall with other dates in Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Norway.

The band will embark on a string of U.S. dates thereafter, highlighted by a rare New York appearance at The Beacon Theatre the day after the release of LA FUTURA. A major multi-tiered marketing campaign will coincide with the release of LA FUTURA, bringing the good news that, at long last, there’s a new ZZ Top album to the nation and the world.

LA FUTURA track listing:
1. I Gotsta Get Paid
2. Chartreuse
3. Consumption
4. Over You
5. Heartache in Blue
6. I Don’t Wanna Lose, Lose, You
7. Flyin’ High
8. It’s Too Easy Mañana
9. Big Shiny Nine
10. Have a Little Mercy

More from music-news.com

Related Posts

Dion Stomping Ground
Dion Rounds Up More Friends for ‘Stomping Ground’

One year after his all-star Dion ‘Blues With Friends’ album Dion is back with more friends, more songs and another all-star album ‘Stomping Ground’.

September 16, 2021
Prince Piano and a Microphone
New Music Releases 20 September 2018

Major new titles coming this week from: Slash, The Paper Kites, The Story So Far, Voivod, Prince (Live), Josh Groban, Suede, Dead Letter Circus, Kid Rock (GH), Thundamentals, Villagers, Billy F. Gibbons, The Aints!, Macy Gray, St. Lucia and the new So Fresh compilation.

September 21, 2018
Billy Gibbons, Noise11, SXSW 2012, Ros O'Gorman, Photo
Billy F Gibbons Has A Solo Tour To Do

Billy F Gibbons will take his second solo album ‘The Big Bad Blues’ out on the road in October.

August 10, 2018
ZZ Top with Jimmie Vaughan in Austin photo by Frank Beard from his drum kit
ZZ Top Welcomes Jimmie Vaughan On Stage In Texas

ZZ Top fans had a special treat when Austin legend Jimmie Vaughan joined them on stage.

November 3, 2012
ZZ Top La Futura
ZZ Top To Release Rick Rubin Produced La Futura

The long-awaited ZZ Top album finally as a title and a release date. ‘La Futura’ will be released in September.

August 3, 2012