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{{Infobox album
| name       = FFWD
| type       = studio
| artist     = FFWD
| cover      = OrbFFWD.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|1994}}
| recorded   = 1993
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| studio     =
| genre      =
* [[Electronic music|Electronic]]
* [[Ambient music|ambient]]
| length     =
| label      = [[WAU! Mr. Modo Recordings|Inter-Modo]]
| producer   = FFWD
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{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r206355|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Music Week]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Alan|last=Jones|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-08-20.pdf#page=19|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums|magazine=[[Music Week]]|date=August 20, 1994|page=19|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev3score = 8/10<ref name="SP">{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |pages=282–283}}</ref>
}}

'''''FFWD''''' is an eponymous album by FFWD – [[Robert Fripp|Robert '''F'''ripp]], [[Thomas Fehlmann|Thomas '''F'''ehlmann]], [[Kris Weston|Kris '''W'''eston]], and [[Alex Paterson|'''D'''r Alex Paterson]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ffwd-mn0000164482/biography|title=FFWD &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=3 |page=416}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&dq=FFWD+1994+paterson&pg=PA539|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=December 18, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The title is also a play on the abbreviation often used on the [[fast forward]] control of a [[tape deck]] or [[CD player]], also referenced in the "double-arrow" graphic used on the cover.

The album peaked at #48 in the [[UK Albums Chart]] in August 1994.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited 
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 164}}</ref>

==Production==
Fripp was recorded for hours improvising on his guitar; Weston constructed these improvisations into working parts for the album.<ref name="auto"/> Paterson and Fehlmann had no production input in this.

==Critical reception==
''[[Trouser Press]]'' wrote that "the modular systems-sounds of ''FFWD'' are neither danceable nor dreamable."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Orb |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/orb/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=18 December 2020}}</ref>

==Track listing==
#"Hidden" – 7:16
#"Lucky Saddle – 6:40
#"Drone" – 1:01
#"Hempire" – 3:12
#"Collossus" – 5:38
#"What Time Is Clock" – 1:15
#"Can of Bliss" – 3:15
#"Elevenses" – 0:49
#"Meteor Storm" – 4:25
#"Buckwheat & Grits" – 10:51
#"Klangtest" – 5:01
#"Suess Wie Eine Nuss" – 8:20

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Discogs release|id=42818|name=FFWD}}

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