The Chaos (album)

The Chaos
Studio album by The Futureheads
Released 26 April 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded 2009
Genre Post-punk revival, indie rock
Label Nul Records
The Futureheads chronology
This Is Not the World
(2008)		 The Chaos
(2010)		 Rant
(2012)
Singles from The Chaos
  1. "Heartbeat Song"
    Released: 12 April 2010
  2. "I Can Do That"
    Released: TBC 2010
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
BBC(positive)[3]
Consequence of Sound[4]
Drowned in Sound[5]
Pitchfork Media(7.3/10)[6]
Strange Glue[7]
The Skinny[8]
Slant Magazine[9]
Pop Matters[10]
MusicOMH[11]
Filter Magazine(82%)[12]
Q magazine[13]

The Chaos is the fourth album by English post-punk revival band The Futureheads. It was released on 26 April 2010.[14][15] The album is the band's second on their label Nul Records, and was preceded by a download-only single, 'Struck Dumb',[16][17][18] on 2 December 2009.[19]

Style

The track 'Struck Dumb', an example of the band's "classic angular guitar-rock",[20] has been described as "a blast of pop-punk energy".[18] 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".[13]

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.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/the-chaos/the-futureheads
  2. ↑ "Allmusic review".
  3. ↑ "BBC review".
  4. ↑ "Consequence of Sound".
  5. ↑ "Drowned in Sound review".
  6. ↑ "Pitchfork Media review".
  7. ↑ "Strange Glue review".
  8. ↑ "The Skinny review".
  9. ↑ "Slant Magazine review".
  10. ↑ "Pop Matters review".
  11. ↑ "MusicOMH review".
  12. ↑ "Filter Magazine review".
  13. 1 2 Phil Mongredien. Q magazine. June 2010. Albums review. P. 126
  14. ↑ Amazon UK
  15. ↑ Album Vote
  16. ↑ MySpace.com
  17. ↑ RCRDLBL.com
  18. 1 2 Clash Music
  19. ↑ This Is Fake DIY
  20. ↑ We All Want Someone
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