YACHT Detail New Album I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler with GIFS
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- August 7, 2015
YACHT have detailed their fifth album, I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler, in a new “tracklisticle” that appears on Buzzfeed. The post is titled “11 Ways We Thought The Future Would Be Cooler”, and includes gifs that the band created for each track on the album, along with a written statement for each.
“We are the band YACHT. This is the tracklisticle for our new album, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler. We chose to unveil it here on BuzzFeed because it’s 2015 and the album is dead, the novel is dead, but the GIF loops forever. ♥ ♫”, they wrote.
Check out select posts and the full tracklist below. Read all of the GIF descriptions over at Buzzfeed.
WHITE MIRROR
Our species has never quite been able to stop itself from grabbing technology, turning it around, and using it as a mirror. Only now the mirror is everything: we are surrounded by representations and reflections of ourselves, avatars, profiles, front-facing cameras. Identity is weird.
I THOUGHT THE FUTURE WOULD BE COOLER
This is what the world feels like: relentless police violence, social media companies exploiting us emotionally, the ascendance of content over art, pleasure as a teleological end in itself, vaporized stimulants, using the word “drone” to mean both a killing machine and a remote-controlled toy.
I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler
01 Miles & Miles
02 White Mirror
03 Matter
04 Ringtone
05 I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler
06 L.A. Plays Itself
07 I Wanna Fuck You Till I’m Dead
08 Hologram
09 Don’t Be Rude
10 War on Women
11 The Entertainment
I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler was originally announced via a Billboard poster that was filmed by a drone. Watch the announcement here.
Watch YACHT perform “Summer Song” on Pitchfork.tv:
