专辑简介

"Looking forward to looking backward? Join "The Mates" on their defiantly nostalgic journey into Future Junk, the imaginary soundtrack to a Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedy set in a Britpop version of The Jetsons. Melancholy harmonic fields shimmer behind the perfect pop craftsmanship of the slaphappy opener "Which Way to the Future" as well as in outright downers like "The Buzz Is Over" and "Despair"; the dialectic comes full circle with the eminently danceable "This Sucks." The spirit (and seemingly the voice) of John Lennon at his most sarcastic presides over "Joke," but it’s the wistful sweetness of these tunes that linger in the ear."