The album is composed of eighteen songs in the structure of a mixtape consisting of radio sounds, snippets of instrumental tracks and voiceovers.[1] It is the first collaborative album by Locks and Mazurek, who collaborated on several other projects including Exploding Star Orchestra. The album's first single, "Yes", was released on May 23, 2023, alongside a music video directed by Locks and animated by Rob Shaw.[2]
Pitchfork described the album as imagining "a clandestine broadcast from a not-so-distant future, playing up pirate radio's utopian impulse in order to raise alarm bells about the present."[1]Uncut Magazine noted that "the whole album, across a wildly varied and genuinely unique 18 tracks, feels like tuning in to some kind of revolutionary post-apocalyptic radio station."[4]AllMusic stated that New Future City Radio "addresses important questions about notions of community in the 21st century. It offers possibilities to learn, a collective resistance to injustice and oppression, and the potential to learn how to disseminate information, among themselves and over unregulated radio waves."[3]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"5-4-3-2-1"
0:22
2.
"Yes!"
2:15
3.
"The Sun Returns"
2:27
4.
"Breeze of Time"
2:39
5.
"Your Name Gonna Ring the Bell"
1:07
6.
"New Future"
1:07
7.
"Droids!"
2:18
8.
"The Concord Hour"
5:08
9.
"Future City"
0:23
10.
"10mins Past the Hour"
0:17
11.
"Support the Youth (With Sound)"
1:19
12.
"The Beat"
0:55
13.
"Las Niñas Estan Escuchando [The Children Are Listening]"
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