{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox album | name = The Future Now | type = studio | artist = Peter Hammill | cover = Peter Hammill The Future Now.jpg | released = September 1978 | recorded = 18 March – 26 April 1978 | studio = Sofa Sound, Byfleet, Surrey | genre = Art rock | length = 41:21 | label = Charisma | producer = Peter Hammill | prev_title = Over | prev_year = 1977 | year = 1978 | next_title = pH7 | next_year = 1979 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r8894|first=François|last=Couture}}</ref> | rev2 = | rev2score = }} '''''The Future Now''''' is the seventh studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1978. It was the first solo album Hammill released following the 1978 breakup of his band Van der Graaf Generator, although he had released numerous solo albums while Van der Graaf Generator were active. The album contains twelve short songs, several in the new wave style of Van der Graaf Generator's last studio album, ''The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome''.

The song "Pushing Thirty" mentions "Nicky" Lowe and David Hemmings, as well as Hammill's alter ego Nadir.

The album cover shows a set of photographs by Brian Griffin, portraying Peter Hammill with half of his moustache and beard shaven.

"If I Could" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album ''The Love Songs''.

==Track listing==

{{Track listing | all_writing = Peter Hammill | headline = Side one | title1 = Pushing Thirty | length1 = 4:21 | title2 = The Second Hand | length2 = 3:29 | title3 = Trappings | length3 = 3:34 | title4 = The Mousetrap (Caught In) | length4 = 4:07 | title5 = Energy Vampires | length5 = 2:57 | title6 = If I Could | length6 = 4:43 | total_length = 23:08 }}

{{Track listing | headline = Side two | title7 = The Future Now | length7 = 4:14 | title8 = Still In The Dark | length8 = 3:41 | title9 = Mediaevil | length9 = 3:07 | title10 = A Motor-Bike In Afrika | length10 = 3:11 | title11 = The Cut | length11 = 4:21 | title12 = Palinurus (Castaway) | length12 = 4:10 | total_length = 22:42 }}

;{{Track listing | headline = 2006 CD reissue bonus tracks | title13 = If I Could | note13 = Live | length13 = 4:41 | title14 = The Mousetrap (Caught In) | note14 = Live | length14 = 4:50 }}

* Track 9 is incorrectly labeled as "Mediaeval" on the back of the CD version of album * Tracks 13 and 14 recorded live at The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA on 16th February 1978 == Personnel == *Peter Hammill – guitars, vocals, keyboards, harmonica, electronics *David Jackson – saxophone (1, 2, 12) *Graham Smith – violin (5, 6, 12)

===Technical=== *Peter Hammill – recording engineer (Sofa Sound, Byfleet, Surrey)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sofasound.com/phcds/tfncd.htm|first=Peter|last=Hammill|title=''The Future Now''|website=Sofa Sound|date=23 October 2006|accessdate=3 July 2019}}</ref> *Pat Moran – mixing (Rockfield Studios, Monmouth) *Brian Griffin – photography

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == *[http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/tfncd.htm Peter Hammill's notes on the album]

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