La Futura  by ZZ Top

Billy Gibbons has stated that the intention for 2012's La Futura, ZZ Top's fifteenth studio album, was to sound like the band's early albums while not turning their back on the recording capabilities offered by modern technology. For this reason, Gibbons obviously collaborated with Rick Rubin in the production of the record.

La Futura is the last studio album for which Dusty Hill offers his talent on bass since until his death in 2021, the group would not present anything new. Dusty Hill sings in only one song on the album, Drive By Lover, which was not included in the original edition of the record but was found later in the deluxe edition. Many characterized it as an excellent record, and indeed ZZ Top seems to have largely achieved the result they were aiming for. Its sound resembles a good return to blues rock without excessive use of synthesizers or drum machines.

The highest position it reached on the Billboard was No. 6.