The Chaos (album)

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The Chaos
Studio album by The Futureheads
Released April 26, 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded 2009
Genre Post-punk revival
Label Nul Records
The Futureheads chronology
This Is Not the World
(2008)		 The Chaos
(2010)
Singles from The Chaos
  1. "Heartbeat Song"
    Released: 12 April 2010
  2. "I Can Do That"
    Released: TBC 2010
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[1]
BBC (positive)[2]
Consequence of Sound 3.5/5 stars[3]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 stars[4]
Pitchfork Media (7.3/10)[5]
Strange Glue 3/5 stars[6]
The Skinny 4/5 stars[7]
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars[8]
Pop Matters 6/10 stars[9]
MusicOMH 3.5/5 stars[10]
Filter Magazine (82%)[11]
Q magazine 4/5 stars[12]

The Chaos is the fourth album by English post-punk revival band The Futureheads. It was released on April 26, 2010[13][14]. The album is the band's second on their label Nul Records, and was preceded by a download-only single, 'Struck Dumb'[15][16][17], on 2 December 2009[18].

[edit] Style

The track 'Struck Dumb', an example of the band's "classic angular guitar-rock"[19], has been described as "a blast of pop-punk energy"[17]. As Phil Mongredien of Q magazine put it, though, in The Chaos, as in This Is Not the World, the emphasis is "on the big radio-friendly choruses, four-part choruses given a euphoric dimensions to their punk-influenced sound, with less of the earlier complex angularity".[12]

Drummer Dave Hyde has recently been busy with a side project known as Hyde and Beast[20] who make "60s and 70s quirky, almost carnival-esque music"[21], so it is not clear what direction the new Futureheads album will take. The band themselves have described the new material as "complicated"[22].

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Chaos" - 4:09
  2. "Struck Dumb" - 2:50
  3. "Heartbeat Song" - 2:29
  4. "Stop the Noise" - 2:31
  5. "The Connector" - 2:56
  6. "I Can Do That" - 3:42
  7. "Sun Goes Down" - 3:52
  8. "This Is the Life" - 2:55
  9. "The Baron" - 3:11
  10. "Dart at the Map" - 4:04
  11. "Jupiter" - 6:23

HMV exclusive bonus tracks

  1. "Bricks & Stones"
  2. "Local Man of the World"

On both the normal version and the HMV version, there is a hidden track, "Living On Light", placed after the end of the final track on each release.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Allmusic review". http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1791296. 
  2. ^ "BBC review". http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/nxnv. 
  3. ^ "Consequence of Sound". http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/05/28/album-review-the-futureheads-the-chaos/. 
  4. ^ "Drowned in Sound review". http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15241/reviews/4139511. 
  5. ^ "Pitchfork Media review". http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14173-the-chaos/. 
  6. ^ "Strange Glue review". http://strangeglue.com/reviews/the-futureheads-the-chaos/10008778. 
  7. ^ "The Skinny review". http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/99066-the-futureheads---the-chaos. 
  8. ^ "Slant Magazine review". http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/the-futureheads-the-chaos/2129. 
  9. ^ "Pop Matters review". http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/124536-the-futureheads-the-chaos. 
  10. ^ "MusicOMH review". http://www.musicomh.com/albums/futureheads-4_0410.htm. 
  11. ^ "Filter Magazine review". http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/reviews/entry/the_futureheads/. 
  12. ^ a b Phil Mongredien. Q magazine. June 2010. Albums review. P. 126
  13. ^ Amazon UK
  14. ^ Album Vote
  15. ^ MySpace.com
  16. ^ RCRDLBL.com
  17. ^ a b Clash Music
  18. ^ This Is Fake DIY
  19. ^ We All Want Someone
  20. ^ NME
  21. ^ Clash Music
  22. ^ Clash Music
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