Futurians (band)

The Futurians
The Futurians at Lines of Flight, Port Chalmers, 2011, by Sheridan Dickson.
Background information
Origin	Dunedin, New Zealand
Genres	noise rock, sci-fi punk
Years active	2001–present
Labels	Heavy Space Records
Associated acts	It Hurts, Uniform, Murdabike, Wolfskull
Website	thefuturianz.blogspot.co.nz
Members	Ducklingmonster, CJA the Pirate, ISO-12, Rocko Mandroid
Past members	Kraus

The Futurians are a long-running noise rock band from New Zealand. Foxy Digitalis magazine called them the "best punk band on the fucken planet."

They have a distinctive retro-futuristic visual style. Their Power / Reactor single was released inside a 16-page full colour book of artworks and collages by the band, with a DVD compiling music videos from 2003 to 2013.

Their music has been described as drawing influence from digital rock, funk, minimalism, no wave, new wave, Brian Wilson, krautrock, noise music, disco, lo-fi, art rock, punk rock, dirges, riot grrrl, doom rock, and drone rock. Both musically and lyrically, the band's songs contain retro-futuristic sci-fi-related themes. They have been called "torn-down semi-punk skiffle", "the sound of gay robots disco dancing and crushing everything underfoot", taser-war stomp, overamped, "moto-beat wiggy-fuzz-workout", "as raw as a skinned knee", sounding "like a banshee funeral for Brian Wilson’s cyborg clone", "armed with nuclear weapons of sonic dust", pure mayhem, "the remnants of space debris raining down on the green hills of New Zealand", a "lo-fi art rock nightmare", and "bent punk wizardry".