FACS – You Future

Chicago’s FACS are back with “You Future,” a fittingly cryptic title for a band that’s made an art form out of sonic uncertainty. The track previews their upcoming album Wish Defense, landing February 7, 2025, via Trouble in Mind Records—and yes, it bears the distinction of being among Steve Albini’s final recording projects because, apparently, the universe wasn’t done adding layers of weight to FACS’ already gravity-dense sound.

“You Future” closes the album with what frontman Brian Case describes as a temporal self-dialogue, which is exactly the kind of conceptual framework you’d expect from a band that treats dissonance like others treat power chords. The track poses existential questions about consistency and sentimentality, threading them through a landscape of serrated guitars and mathematical chaos. It’s the kind of song that makes you question your past self while your present self tries to keep up with the time signatures.

Wish Defense emerges as both a testament to evolution and a document of loss, completed with assists from Sanford Parker and John Congleton after Albini’s passing. A European tour kicks off in February, followed by North American dates in April, offering audiences the chance to experience FACS’ carefully orchestrated disorder in its natural habitat.