21st Century Man / Achtung Mutha (often referred to simply as 21st Century Man) is an album by English musician Luke Haines, released on 2 November 2009, on 2 CDs.
Critical reception
Nadine McBay described the album "part celebration of the outcast", and part "nihilistic gloom", and as more consistent than his previous album Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop, however not without some unremarkable tracks, such as "White Honky Afro". Andy Gill of The Independent noted the album's themes of self-sabotage and outsider identity, referencing figures like Peter Hammill and Klaus Kinski, with a sardonic commentary on cultural divides and suburbia in England.
Jake Kennedy, writing for Record Collector, noted a blunting of Haines' lyrical edge, and that while a man who titled a song "Russian Futurists Black Out The Sun" still had plenty to offer, but that for "every witticism" there was a "banality", or "worse still, a crude Americanism". Ben Graham of The Quietus noted that the album seemed to be played "surprisingly straight" by Haines' standards.
Track listing
References
External links 21st Century Man / Achtung Mutha on Discogs (list of releases)
21st Century Man on MusicBrainz