ZZ TOP new album

ZZ TOP To Release La Futura On September 11th; Complete Details Revealed






the first new studio album from ZZ TOP in nine years is La Futura, set
for release September 11 by American Recordings. 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."




The fact that the new album's title is in Spanish is a nod to an early
ZZ Top tradition manifested in the titles of some of the band's earliest
albums including Tres Hombres, Fandango!, El Loco and Deguello. Known
for decades by the sobriquet That Little Ol' Band From Texas, ZZ Top was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Keith Richards in 2004
and has maintained a very active international and domestic touring
schedule over the intervening years. They signed to American Recordings a
few years ago and have been working on what would become La Futura in
spurts since then. Last year they finally entered Foam Box Recordings in
Houston, working full time to lay down the tracks that would comprise
La Futura. Additional recording for the album took place at Shangri La
Studios in Malibu, CA.


The four songs that kick off La Futura, 'I Gotsta Get Paid',
'Chartreuse', 'Consumption' and 'Over You' debuted last month as
Texicali, a digital preview collection exclusively available from iTunes
that achieved significant critical and sales success. 'I Gotsta Get
Paid', performed by the band in video spots for the Jeremiah Weed line
of beverages raised awareness of the song that was inspired by the
1990's underground Houston rap song '25 Lighters' by DJ DMD with LIL'
KEKE and FAT PAT.


Also part of La Futura is, fittingly, 'Flyin' High'. The track made
its interstellar debut when it was piped into the Soyuz spacecraft at
the time of its launch to the International Space Station thirteen
months ago. Before it was fully completed, the song was heard onboard at
the request of NASA Astronaut Mike Fossum, a long-time ZZ Top fan and
intimate who had caught wind of it in an earlier conversation with Dusty
Hill.


La Futura also includes 'I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose, You' that has a
real garage rock feel while 'Big Shiny Nine' is a double entendre tour
de force. 'It's Too Easy Manana' is a down tempo lament, written by
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whose chorus includes the lyric "it's
too easy to feel good." 'Heartache In Blue' includes vocals shared by
Gibbons and Hill and can be likened to country blues as reimagined for
the 21st Century. The album closes with 'Have A Little Mercy', a down
and dirty funky tune, complete with tempo shift, that should serve to
underscore the ZZ Top motto that "you just can't lose with the blues."


ZZ Top is 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 tracklisting:

'I Gotsta Get Paid'

'Chartreuse'

'Consumption'

'Over You'

'Heartache in Blue'

'I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose, You'

'Flyin' High'

'It's Too Easy Manana'

'Big Shiny Nine'

'Have a Little Mercy'