Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
EXITmusic.org	(favorable)
FreeMusic.cz	70/100%
Hudba.sk	(positive)
MusicServer.cz	7/10
The Prague Post	(positive)
Rock & Pop	(favorable)
SME	(favorable)
SpaceBoss.net	(positive)
UNI	(positive)
Žurnál	(positive)

The Past of the Future is the third studio album by Slovak musician Karol Mikloš, released on May 20, 2008. Issued by Deadred Records, the set was distributed in the neighboring Czech Republic through Starcastic Records, and virtually by Music Kickup. As such, the work followed the pattern of his previous release Vis-à-vis (2002), in which Mikloš began his gradual transition into the electronic circles. Unlike its predecessor, The Past of the Future featured a live instrumentation.

Mikloš reprised his collaboration with Andrej Monček for one song, "You Never Listen", promoted also on a single, which became his highest charting outcome on the SK Rádio Top 50 to date, debuting and peaking at number twenty-six. The rest of the compositions were written mostly by Mikloš himself and entered the top-forty of the component airplay list, with the exception of "Insane" from 2006. As a result, the album received two nominations for the annual Radio Head Awards, presented by Rádio FM.

Upon release, The Past of the Future earned from favorable to positive reviews from music journalists, with many of them rating the work as the finest full-length effort recorded by Mikloš, or rather his most mature album until then. Although the set itself didn't enter the record charts, Czech Radio Wave listed the title as the Album of the Week for the week beginning June 2, 2008.

The Past of the Future generated mainly positive music critics with the earliest being published by the Czech media. Independent web portal SpaceBoss.net, introduced the final result as "more mature, more colorful and more genuine than anything [he] recorded so far." Along with complimenting Mikloš for lyrical and vocal contributions, the website attributed much of his album's sound potential to those by Matúš Homola and Andrej Gmuca. Tadeáš Haager from alternative Radio Wave station, acknowledged singer for managing to learn from mistakes in the past, referring to a monotonous sound of his previous outputs as observed by local journalists once upon a time. While stressing artist's credibility to perform also in English, Haager concluded that "listening to Mikloš doesn't mean to hear some sonic boom of a pioneer and trailblazer, it is more likely an incredibly skilled tribute to [his] foreign models with no need to be ashamed for and to dissociate self from them."

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