Trans Am goes back to the past with FUTUREWORLD at Union Pool
Union Pool
484 Union Ave.
Saturday, October 8, and Sunday, October 9, $15, 9:00
718-609-0484
www.transband.com
http://unionpool.blogspot.com
On Saturday and Sunday night at Union Pool, people will be partying like it’s 1999 as Trans Am zooms into Brooklyn, celebrating the release of a remastered version of their classic 1999 album, Futureworld, being reissued by Thrill Jockey complete with two bonus tracks (“Nazi/Hippie Empire” and “Now You Die, Thriddle Fool”). On the album, bassist and vocalist Nathan Means, guitarist Philip Manley, and drummer Sebastian Thomson let loose a barrage of sound, from the opening ninety-seven seconds of bluesy screeches that make up “1999” to the seven-minute technorobotic title track, from the drum-heavy punk fury and distorted vocals of “City in Flames” to the heavy metal–ish “Am Rhein,” from the spacey, meditative “Runners Standing Still” and the space age “Futureworld II” to the marching-band-like “Positron” and the mystical, slowly building “Sad and Young.” Mixed by James Murphy, Futureworld is like a furious ride across long stretches of highway in a souped-up car, the radio station constantly changing as towns flash by in a blur. Trans Am will be playing the album in full both nights at Union Pool, followed by a set featuring other songs from throughout their eighteen-year career, which includes such other albums as Surrender to the Night (1997), Who Do We Think You Are? (1999), Liberation<,em> (2004), and Thing (2010). The Psychic Paramount opens both shows.