Future Past (Duran Duran album)
Future Past is the 15th studio album by the British band Duran Duran, released on 22 October 2021. It is the band's first album to be released through BMG, and their first since 2015's "Paper Gods" six years prior. The album, co-produced by the band alongside Mark Ronson, Giorgio Moroder and Erol Alkan, also features guest appearances by Tove Lo, Ivorian Doll, Japanese band Chai, and Mike Garson. Blur's Graham Coxon is the guitarist on the album. The band released the album's first single "Invisible" on 19 May 2021. The  tracks "More Joy!" featuring Chai, "Anniversary", "Tonight United" and "Give It All Up" featuring Lo were also released in advance of the album. Background and content. John Taylor described "Future Past" as a "very emotionally deep album", revealing that the lyrics were primarily written before 2020's COVID-19 lockdowns: "Many of the songs are about emotional crises, or long-term intimacy issues, let's call them. When we came back after lockdown, I felt that those lyrics, particularly 'Invisible,' spoke to the moment, because the last 18 months have really been about intimacy politics." Cover art. The cover is a  colourised and combined image of two black-and-white pictures by Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Nick Rhodes met Yokota in 2017 while researching for a documentary about Japanese photographers. The album's art director Rory McCartney laid the images over the top of one another, creating the effect of a stationary silhouette in red with another silhouette in green moving beyond it, which resonated with McCartney. Tour. On 15 March, 2022, a 14-date North American tour to promote the album, as well as to celebrate the band's album "Rio"'s 40th anniversary, was announced. The tour will begin  on August 19, 2022 in Welch, Minnesota and conclude on September 11, 2022 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Nile Rodgers will serve as the opening act. Personnel. Duran Duran Additional musicians Technical Design