When Is the Future?

"When Is the Future?" is a single by VNV Nation from their album Noire. It was released on 8 October 2018, a few days before the European release of the album. This song was released with a music video, VNV Nation's first.
The song became a hit single for the band, being one of very few VNV songs to reach ten million views on YouTube and ten million streams on Spotify.

Music video

The music video for "When Is the Future?" was directed by Michael and Flora Winkler, and filmed in Tokyo during late 2018.

Reception

"When Is the Future?" was praised upon release. Douglas Leach, writing for Regen Mag, described the song as, "leaning a bit more into the synthwave sound than standard VNV Nation and ending up being a well-written pop song".
Annika Heller also praised the song in her review, saying, "With its regular beats and future pop elements, I couldn’t help but imagining myself walking to the song’s rhythm through a metropolis as a stranger, just like Ronan Harris on his stroll through Tokyo".