Future Vintage

Album is insane. Mayday is killin' it and always keep it original. So many crazy styles go get this album!

The wait was worth it

I was a little disappointed with this album, it didn't sound hardly anything like their previous albums. I definitely miss that old sound in this.

Every single track on this album is fantastic, it does not get any better than this.

Song for song, this album is genius and worth every penny, so support these dudes!

If you like rap, but not the garbage that they play on the radio and you like rock influence on top of rap, THIS is what you are looking for. Mayday always provides an outstanding album and I am quite glad that they do not load their album up with features. One thing I do miss compared to the previous albums (such as Take Me To Your Leader) is some flat out rock instrumental solos (like "Dig It Out" or "Keep Em On"), I am not complaining in any way. These guys took a trip into a different type of music compared to what they usually release and I honestly love it (minus the annoying chipmunk voices hidden behind some of Wrek's singing in songs, like the opening to "Jettison" or the hook on "Fuel To The Fire"). My downright favorite song on the whole album is "Against My Better Judgement" because I have been hoping that these guys would put out a song like this, and it absolutely blew me away. I will play this in my car on the way home from class and I will get goosebumps when all of the instruments kick in. I love all of the songs though!

Nothing else in the underground nor mainstream scene has sounded like this. ¡Mayday! will turn you into a believer eventually. ^S^

If amazing music was fire, these guys would be the dragons that breathe it! Unique sound, incredible beats, and lyrics that are the icing on the tastiest of cakes.

Compared to their other releases, this album has a totally different sound. I really like what they've done and how far they've come. ¡MAYDAY! is one of those bands who aren't afraid to try something new and never disappoint. I bought this album the day it came out and have listened to it 9 times through and through. Nowhere near as many times as the previous albums but we're only on day two of the album release. Everything they do gets better and better. What's even better is they love their fans! They interact with the fans at the meet and greets, during concerts, and even Wrekonize stopped and talked to us for about 15 minutes and gave us the very first copies of the Morsels mixtape. I always say if you don't listen to ¡MAYDAY!, you don't listen to good music! Follow them on instagram @maydaymusic and follow me for pictures and videos of them and other stuff @ryanboulding. 😝 ^S^ Strange Music!

Miami-formed hip-hop band Mayday (rappers Bernz and Wreckonize, keyboardist/producer Plex Luthor, drummer LT Hopkins, Bassist Gianni Cash and percussionist NonMS) began their rise modestly in their suburban Kendall, FL locale but had big dreams, big ideas and big musical flavors to share with the world. Signed to SouthBeat Records initially and buoyed by a few hits like 2004's "Quicksand" and 2006's YouTube smash "Groundhog Day" featuring Cee-Lo, Mayday would later run into rough patches when SouthBeat hit hard times financially, but when Tech N9ne came to the group's rescue soon after, the Mayday boys quickly signed with his Strange Music outfit in 2011. In 2012, they released their Strange debut album, the solid Take Me To Your Leader, with Believers arriving a year later and Mursday with LA's Living Legend MURS coming in 2014, both to similar praise. With the wind at their backs, the clan are back to build upon all those previous projects with their latest, the Future Vintage LP (released Sept. 18). Queueing up Mayday's iconic sound from before, chill easy-rock beats with organic instruments and Miami music essences are layered and tempered to spread exciting yet cool vibes in their listeners' souls. To be clear, this is not Roots-like music, as the new-wave, electronic notes in their chords detach more than attached them to traditional jazz, at least on this album of theirs. Future Vintage is a little less giddy and more philosophically melancholy than any previous Mayday release, but still, the guys are predominantly on their own wavelength here, relatable as they may be in parts. Though songs like "Coast," "DIVE" and "Something in the Air" provide a light, hangout-like experience, most of the album is spent pondering life. With a bohemian air and a tortured soul mind-state, Mayday deal with love, rebellion, death, everyday life struggles, police malfeasance, chasing dreams and maintaining family bonds as just some of their speaking points, as they go off course from time to time as they wish. The group is still cool, but the sense of longing looming over their shoulders here has them a little hot and bothered for the right and wrong reasons. Mayday is still mostly grounded, but parts of Future Vintage feel like a pity party, and ironically, the only happiness they find is in healthy relationships (a definite plus) and low-key partying (could be counterproductive). The slow-burning depression is obvious but more so as a concept than a dreadfully serious phase in the true lives of the members, and it does have the backing of all of Mayday plus their guests (Stevie Stone, Femi Kuti, Ryan "Myagi" Evans, Ces Cru, Stige and Tech N9ne). Strange Music artists tend to sound the same, but Mayday on this album are just as much unique and original as they are a well-fitting, belonging part of the unified Strange brand of sound and style. Future Vintage will very likely do for Mayday just what its title denotes, which is to live on in the future for a long time to come, and be a reference point in their discography as a signature period in their career.