ZZ Top cleverly reference past glories without succumbing to recycling: 'I Gotsta Get Paid' could have wallowed in the Rio Grande Mud, 'Chartreuse' boogies as relentlessly as 'Tush,' 'Have a Little Mercy' winks at 'Waitin' for the Bus,' and they revive the arena rock of the '80s with 'Flyin' High.' What makes these songs really cook is how ZZ Top are celebrating everything that they've taken for granted for decades - they're embracing the sleazy boogie, the dirty jokes, the locomotive riffs, the saturated blues, the persistent lecherous leer, and by doing so they finally sound like themselves again.

Far from hiding his ragged singing, Gibbons and Rubin have it battle the thick blasts of fuzz guitars throughout the whole of the album, noise that even splatters the slow 12-bar form of 'Heartache in Blue.' It's a thick, tactile sound that's invigorating - the smack of Frank Beard's snare is infectious - and that alone would make La Futura a success, but what makes it a triumph is the coolly efficient songwriting. ZZ Top have the weathered interplay of vets who've been doing this for almost their entire lives and Billy Gibbons' gravelly growl has now withered into a gnarly, strangled croak, almost primal in its ugliness. And there's no mistaking that this lil' ol' band from Texas is indeed old - and its age is part of the pleasure of La Futura. Zz nuttin but 25 out the door Him and hawing we gonna doin it to the 25 shows 25 lighters on my dressa, dressa You know I gotta get paid 25 lighters on my dressa dressa, Yessa I gotsta get paid 25 lighters on my dressa, yessa I gotta gotta get paid I 25 lighters on my dressa, yessa You know I got to get paid Uh, cmon Just check me out All I. Rubin returns real drums to ZZ Top but doesn't entirely strip away drum machines, giving La Futura just enough of a futuristic shimmer to live up to its name, just enough of the present to make it feel of the moment. Certainly, La Futura is the best album from ZZ Top since that '80s landmark but it flips Eliminator on its head, using synthesized elements as accents, not as a skeleton. This one is actually a cover of the hip-hop song, 25 Lighters by DJ DMD, Lil’ Keke and Fat Pat. Heres the correct way to play: I Gotsta Get Paid by ZZ Top. This one is actually a cover of the hip-hop song, 25 Lighters by DJ DMD, Lil’ Keke and Fat Pat. Gibbons sits at the mixing board with Rubin and together they revive the Top's dirty '70s boogie, never quite forgetting the coolly propulsive stylized rock of Eliminator. On La Futura (2012), ZZ Top drew a lot of attention with I Gotsta Get Paid. La Futura is that long-awaited ZZ Top record, their first full-length in nearly a decade (the last was 2003's Mescalero) and, more remarkably, their first-ever album to bear a production credit by somebody who is neither Billy Gibbons nor longtime manager Bill Ham, who left the organization in 2006. ZZ Top have long been a prime candidate for a Rick Rubin-led comeback, having long ago settled into an insular digital rut that paid back increasingly small dividends.

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