| Future Spa | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Fauves |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | August 1996 |
| Recorded: | Sing Sing, Hothouse, Melbourne and Charing Cross, Sydney |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 60:45 |
| Label: | Polydor Records |
| Producer: | Wayne Connolly, Greg Wales |
| Prev Title: | The Young Need Discipline |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | Lazy Highways |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
Future Spa is the third album by Australian rock band The Fauves. It was released in August 1996.
The album contained two songs that appeared in Triple J Hottest 100, 1996, "Dogs Are the Best People" at No.20 and "Self Abuser" at No.30.[1] It was nominated for Best Alternative Album in the 1997 ARIA awards but lost to Spiderbait's Ivy and the Big Apples.[2] [3] In November 2008, The Age reported that the album had sold 15,000 copies,[4] making it the best-selling Fauves album.
Cox noted, "There are so many things you can write about, yet rock tends to limit itself to a very narrow band of what's acceptable. This is just our attempt to broaden that a little. Even if the lyrics aren't great, at least they're different. None of us are claiming to be poets."[5]
(All songs written by The Fauves)
*Song ends at minute 4:40. After 5 minutes of silence, begins the hidden track, "Everybody's Getting a Three Piece Together" (9:40 - 12:40), followed by a police interview of two band members regarding a marijuana arrest and caution (12:40 - 19:40).[6]