Future Teenage Cave Artists
{{Infobox album
| name = Future Teenage Cave Artists
| type = studio
| artist = Deerhoof
| cover = Future Teenage Cave Artists artwork.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|2020|05|29}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 36:26
| label = Joyful Noise
| producer =
| prev_title = Mountain Moves
| prev_year = 2017
| next_title = Love-Lore
| next_year = 2020
}}
Future Teenage Cave Artists is the sixteenth studio album by American experimental rock band Deerhoof. It was released on May 29, 2020 under Joyful Noise Recordings.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/deerhoof-announce-new-album-future-teenage-cave-artists-share-new-songs-listen/|title=Deerhoof Announce New Album Future Teenage Cave Artists|website=Pitchfork|last=Ismael Ruiz|first=Michael|date=March 25, 2020|access-date=May 27, 2020}} A tour to support the release was scheduled for May and June 2020; however, these were rescheduled due to COVID-19.{{cite web|url=https://www.thefader.com/2020/03/25/deerhoof-future-teenage-cave-artists-release-date|title=Deerhoof announce Future Teenage Cave Artists album|work=The Fader|last=Renshaw|first=David|date=March 25, 2020|access-date=May 27, 2020}}
Two singles from the album, "Future Teenage Cave Artists" and "The Loved One" were released on March 25, 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/deerhoof-announce-new-album-future-teenage-cave-artists-and-share-two-new-songs-2635029|title=Deerhoof announce new album 'Future Teenage Cave Artists' and share two new songs|website=NME|last=Krol|first=Charlotte|date=March 25, 2020|access-date=May 27, 2020}} The third single, "Farewell Symphony", was released April 20, 2020.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/deerhoof-new-song-farewell-symphony-985949/|title=Deerhoof Mull Humanity's Big Goodbye on New Song 'Farewell' Symphony'|magazine=Rolling Stone|last=Bernstein|first=Jonathan|date=April 20, 2020|access-date=May 27, 2020}}
Greg Saunier said in an August 2020 interview that a "sort of a sequel" to Future Teenage Cave Artists would be "coming out in a couple months".{{cite web|url=https://sungenre.com/interview/deerhoof-part-2/|title=Deep dive with Deerhoof: Greg Saunier reveals 'sequel to Cave Artists' out 'in a couple months'|work=Sungenre|last=Webb|first=Dan|date=August 7, 2020|access-date=August 7, 2020}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| MC = 79/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/future-teenage-cave-artists/deerhoof|title=Metacritic Review|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=June 3, 2020}}
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/future-teenage-cave-artists-mw0003371492|title=AllMusic Review|website=AllMusic|last=Phares|first=Heather|date=May 29, 2020|access-date=March 31, 2023}}
| rev2 = DIY
| rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://diymag.com/2020/05/28/deerhoof-future-teenage-cave-artists-album-review|title=DIY Magazine Review|work=DIY|last=Harris|first=Nick|date=28 May 2020 |access-date=May 29, 2020}}
| rev3 = Exclaim!
| rev3score = 9/10{{cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/deerhoof_future_teenage_cave_artists_album_review|title=Exclaim! Review|website=Exclaim!|last=Hayes|first=Byron|date=May 25, 2020|access-date=May 27, 2020}}
| rev4 = Loud and Quiet
| rev4score = 9/10{{cite web|url=https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/deerhoof-future-teenage-cave-artists/|title=Loud and Quiet Review|work=Loud and Quiet|last=Haley|first=Dominic|access-date=May 27, 2020}}
| rev5 = MusicOMH
| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/deerhoof-future-teenage-cave-artists|title=MusicOMH Review|website=MusicOMH|last=White|first=Chris|date=May 26, 2020|access-date=May 27, 2020}}
| rev6 = NME
| rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/deerhoof-future-teenage-cave-artists-album-review-2677674|title=Deerhoof – 'Future Teenage Cave Artists' review: experimental rock veterans dig deep to cement legacy|website=NME|last=Neale|first=Matthew|date=May 29, 2020|access-date=May 29, 2020}}
| rev7 = Our Culture Mag
| rev7score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://ourculturemag.com/2020/06/04/album-review-deerhoof-future-teenage-cave-artists/|title=Album Review: Deerhoof, 'Future Teenage Cave Artists'|work=Our Culture Mag|last=Pappis|first=Konstantinos|date=June 4, 2020|access-date=June 8, 2020}}
| rev8 = Paste
| rev8score = 7.3/10{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/deerhoof/future-teenage-cave-artists-review/|title=Deerhoof Make a Revolutionary Racket on Future Teenage Cave Artists|work=Paste|last=Schonfeld|first=Zach|date=May 26, 2020|access-date=May 29, 2020}}
| rev9 = Pitchfork
| rev9score = 7.8/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/deerhoof-future-teenage-cave-artists/|title=Deerhoof: Future Teenage Cave Artists Album Review|work=Pitchfork|last=Felsenthal|first=Daniel|date=June 2, 2020|access-date=June 3, 2020}}
| rev10 = Tom Hull – on the Web
| rev10Score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm1}}){{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|authorlink=Tom Hull (critic)|date=January 26, 2021|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2923-Music-Week.html|title=Music Week|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|access-date=January 29, 2021}}
}}
Future Teenage Cave Artists was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on 10 reviews.
Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Heather Phares opined that, "In Future Teenage Cave Artists, they explore what happens when that fight is lost. As Deerhoof dives into the messes that younger generations have to clean up, and art's role in the process, they sound rawer than they have in years. These songs are filled with intentionally frayed edges and jarring edits, as if they were created with whatever broken equipment the band could find after society collapsed." he concluded by claiming that, "the band's long-standing need to reflect and confront the world's problems, make Future Teenage Cave Artists remarkable proof that their experiments are as crucial as ever."
In the review for Exclaim!, Bryon Hayes claimed that, "Thematically, Future Teenage Cave Artists imagines a not-too-distant future in which our society's collective outpourings are seen as the cave art of a primitive civilization that has since decimated itself. While this all sounds rather bleak, there is a slightly unfinished essence in Future Teenage Cave Artists, indicating that perhaps society hasn't written its own death sentence; there is still hope."
Assessing the album for DIY, Nick Harris was less enthused by the album and the band's performance. He stated that, "They’re a band with a very definite foot (or hoof?) stuck in the past, everything they touch holding a vintage sheen of some kind, but it’s such a broad and masterful selection that there’s no sense of pastiche. The lyrics across the record let it down - they match the random patchwork of the sound, but take a step too far in the direction of gibberish for the most part."
Daniel Felsenthal of Pitchfork wrote, "...much of Future Teenage Cave Artists was recorded on laptops and phones, a tech-forward simplicity that reflects the album’s scrappy and cataclysmic milieu. It sounds less polished than their last couple of albums, but never as raw as their recently reissued early oeuvre...We’re left contemplating how a rock band, 26 years into their career, have managed to not only pin down the chaos of our time, but also to point toward our uncertain future."{{clear}}
Track listing
{{Tracklist
|headline =Future Teenage Cave Artists track listing
|title1=Future Teenage Cave Artists
|length1=3:26
|title2=Sympathy for the Baby Boo
|length2=2:23
|title3=The Loved One
|length3=2:38
|title4=O Ye Saddle Babes
|length4=3:32
|title5=New Orphan Asylum for Spirited Deerchildren
|length5=3:56
|title6=Zazeet
|length6=2:28
|title7=Fraction Anthem
|length7=2:52
|title8=Farewell Symphony
|length8=3:49
|title9=Reduced Guilt
|length9=3:44
|title10=Damaged Eyes Squinting into the Beautiful Overhot Sun
|length10=3:58
|title11=I Call on Thee
|length11=3:17
|total_length=36:26
}}