This week Daniel Johns released his anticipated second solo album FutureNever, 7 years after his first solo album Talk. With universal stellar album reviews, FutureNever has proven fans and the public have longed for an album that truly takes you on an epic journey and gives you a deeply personal experience that only Daniel can capture and deliver.
With many stand-out tracks on offer, Where Do We Go? is being officially serviced to Australian Radio today by popular demand.
Where Do We Go? is street-smart, slick pop-meets-R&B but lifted with some genre-defying classicism
- NME AUSTRALIA
“Sometimes I’m not trying, most the time I’m dying,” goes the opening to Where Do We Go?, a Prince-styled soul ballad with a killer tube-howling power-chord chorus
- SYDNEY MORNING HERALD / THE AGE
In addition, visit FutureNeverFund Daniel’s newly created charitable fund to help raise money to create better futures for people and animals in need with a focus on mental health, racial inequality, diversity in the arts and animal welfare. Daniel has kicked the fund off with a $20,000 donation and says contributions will be “supercharged” by additional merch drops and exclusive fundraising events and auctions. Further stating, “After 12 months, as the Fund grows, we will look to broaden the scope and investigate incorporating more charities as a beneficiary of FutureNeverFund. I’d love for you to help contribute in whatever way you feel comfortable, and I’ll be sharing ways you can be part of the mission as we roll this out”.
The album FutureNever is out now globally via BMG and available HERE
“Within the first 10 minutes, FutureNever erupts with Diorama-level theatrics, busts into a perfectly paced day-glo R&B gem, then comes down hard with a Peking Duk collaboration. As a collection of music, it is unassailable, ambitious, and often brilliant, with the album’s high points sitting among his very best work” – THE GUARDIAN (4-Star Album Review)
“The 12 tracks are by turns surprising, dramatic, cinematic, and more than a little show-offy. The arrangements touch on pop, rock, classical and electronic music, while his vocal performances are stunning” – THE AUSTRALIAN
“There is a vulnerability, curiosity and adventure that makes ‘FutureNever’ unmistakably Johns. That kid who once asked you to wait for tomorrow is living in it today” –
NME AUSTRALIA (4-Star Album Review)
“FutureNever is an album unlike anything Daniel Johns’ fans have ever heard before, anyone hoping to find Johns at his creative peak, it’s manna from heaven” – ROLLING STONE AUSTRALIA
“Johns has chosen not to release any singles, a smart move, because there’s no doubt FutureNever is an album. An immensely rewarding, immersive experience” – STACK MAGAZINE
“Album track “FreakNever” is a truly nightmarish rewriting of the early Silverchair hit Freak. Once a more-or-less defiant response to Johns’ first rush of fame, here it sounds like a festering loop in the brain of a traumatised child. “No more maybes/ The world stole a baby/ Took his soul on tour and/ Made a deal with the devil.” – SYDNEY MORNING HERALD / THE AGE
“Conceptually, tonally, and most importantly emotionally, FutureNever is an album of complete freedom and complete control, at his own pace. In its stylistic range it goes almost everywhere in the Johns repertoire: from slinky R&B and art rock to chilled electro pop; from self-distorting ballads and flamboyant pop to boot-stomping guitar rock, sometimes via knowing and deliberate references to his past”- BERNARD ZUEL