| The Chaos | ||||
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| Studio album by The Futureheads | ||||
| Released | April 26, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
| Genre | Post-punk revival | |||
| Label | Nul Records | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [1] |
| BBC | (positive)[2] |
| Consequence of Sound | [3] |
| Drowned in Sound | [4] |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.3/10)[5] |
| Strange Glue | [6] |
| The Skinny | [7] |
| Slant Magazine | [8] |
| Pop Matters | [9] |
| MusicOMH | [10] |
| Filter Magazine | (82%)[11] |
| Q magazine | [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].
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].
HMV exclusive bonus tracks
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.
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