Ahead by Functional Mushrooms
“Ahead,” the eighth album by your very own Functional Mushrooms, is now careening off oaken temples and spontaneous ashwagandha farms and bristling trees in pixie-filled forest collectives. Listen to it here, here, here, here, here…. hear hear!
In 2024, you’ll be amazed to know that this prolific and bored Connecticut quartet has put out a total of four full-length albums, which may beg the question: why not just put out one good one?
“Getting ahead in life is certainly one way to go about things, though there certainly are alternative strategies, which is an aspect of things around here that this record gets right,” said one nonreal music critic after hearing an early pressing of “Ahead.” “Sadly it’s probably the only thing the record gets right.”
Those other strategies – turning your back on the past, burning it all the fuck down, getting your ass drunk and incarcerated, finding some sort of vein of spirituality and hunkering down there to ride out the rest of your time here – have sadly mislead the record’s narrator(s) down sketchy paths.
As they say: you gotta go somehow.
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Tracklist
| 1. | Turn Away From the Past | 3:47 |
| 2. | Burn it All Down | 3:38 |
| 3. | The Sailor (Song Without a Name) | 4:45 |
| 4. | Throw the Book at Me/All the Best People | 6:02 |
| 5. | Terms and Conditions | 4:20 |
Credits
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Functional Mushrooms are Stephen Busemeyer (guitar), Will Corwin (bass), Adam Hagymasi (guitar and vocals) and Mike Hamad (percussion, vocals and wisdom).