La Futura, produced by Rick Rubin and Billy F. Gibbons, 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. Music video by ZZ Top performing I Gotsta Get Paid. ZZ Top - La Grange - Duration: 3:48. Michael Baker 84,346,602 views. Molly Hatchet.

Producer Rick Rubin is known for getting a tight, dry sound out of the hard rock bands he works with, and La Futura—the first new ZZ Top studio album in nine years—benefits from Rubin's oversight. Yes, 'I Gotsa Get Paid' works over a hip-hop tune, but 'Heartache in Blue' is true to the Chicago-gone-to-Texas blues that made ZZ Top a world-class blues-boogie-rock band in the '70s. Billy Gibbons coproduces and plays some of his dirtiest leads in decades. His voice rips with weathered passion, halfway to Bob Dylan's death-defying croak but with enough melody still in play to bring out the highlights in 'I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose, You.' The first four tracks were previously released as the iTunes-only Texicali collection.

La Futura ZZ Top have long been a prime candidate for a Rick Rubin-led comeback, having long ago settled into an insular digital rut that paid back increasingly small dividends. Gibbons sits at the mixing board with Rubin and together they revive the Top's dirty '70s boogie, never quite forgetting the coolly propulsive stylized rock of Eliminator. Bsmultitool Exe Download. Certainly, La Futura is the best album from ZZ Top since that '80s landmark but it flips Eliminator on its head, using synthesized elements as accents, not as a skeleton.

The additional six songs here rock with precision and some nicely distorted vocals. 'Flyin' High' evokes AC/DC's power chords. 'It's Too Easy Manana' cranks out a slow, burly, ominous blast. 'Big Shiny Nine' picks up speed and a swagger, while 'Have a Little Mercy' brings us back to the pure blues of ZZ Top's roots. Producer Rick Rubin is known for getting a tight, dry sound out of the hard rock bands he works with, and La Futura—the first new ZZ Top studio album in nine years—benefits from Rubin's oversight. Yes, 'I Gotsa Get Paid' works over a hip-hop tune, but 'Heartache in Blue' is true to the Chicago-gone-to-Texas blues that made ZZ Top a world-class blues-boogie-rock band in the '70s. Billy Gibbons coproduces and plays some of his dirtiest leads in decades.