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Love The Future

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 11 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 5 votes
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Album Info
Label: Interscope
Release Date: 21 April 2009
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Pop
Summary
The duo of D.A. Wallach and Max Drummey release their debut album on Pharrell Williams' label after a bidding war by Kanye West's and Jermaine Dupri's own labels.
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly
But given the infectiously goofy tunes on Love the Future--the Beastie Boys covering the Beach Boys?--it might not be long till Wallach's girl trouble is real.
Read Full Review >Vibe
Chester French have deftly balanced the thrills of newness with the reliability of the old--not bad a for a couple of graduates.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe
Could this really be Chester French's first album? Love the Future sounds too wise--and too catchy--to possibly be the debut from recent Harvard grads D.A. Wallach and Max Drummey
Read Full Review >Spin
Their major-label debut gets by on smarmy-smooth suburban- pop melodies, cheeky genre mash-ups, and good bad jokes.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Too intelligent and well-crafted to dismiss but too disjointed and self-indulgent to really embrace, Love the Future is equally frustrating and promising.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
Though a few of the songs on Love the Future fail to capture the spark of their early successes, overall it’s a fairly impressive introductory statement.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
The band's way with a catchy hook and a summery, laid back vibe may yet see them overtake Maroon 5, but that's where their lofty thoughts should settle for now.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express (NME)
Though there’s a lot to dislike, there’s also the bones of something interesting here. If only they’d stuck with making more numbers like the enticing Adam Green-ish gypsy pop of ‘Neal’, they might just have won us over.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
None of the band’s stylistic flourishes are pulled off well enough to convince you they could do one style effectively, nonetheless the 10 they try out here.
Read Full Review >Blender
Their full-length debut--anchored by sunny ’60s-style pop festooned with strings and heavy-handed synths--also includes a Portugese track, a classical-music interlude and (enough already!) a tap-dance routine.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
