ALBUM REVIEW: Rebecca Schiffman – Before The Future 

Released: 25.07.25

Before The Future is Rebecca Schiffman’s fourth studio album, and her first collaboration with Lost Sound Tapes who will release the cassette version. It was recorded shortly after the singer-songwriter relocated from New York to Los Angeles and is a luminous, anachronistically light-hearted album.

Schiffman’s songs are autobiographical and disarmingly candid, capturing the shifting colours, experiences and energy of young adulthood (and, more precisely, motherhood) reminiscent of the cool, whimsical mood of the anti-folk scene of the early 2000s (Jeffrey Lewis, Kimya Dawson, Adam Green). Schiffman’s singing often recalls the sparse, timorous manners of Moe Tucker. Before The Future is simultaneously vague and direct – eight slow paced songs flickering like dreamy home movies. It is a quietly addictive record, a family album, fascinating in its everydayness.