The Chaos (album)

The Chaos
Studio album by The Futureheads
Released 26 April 2010
Recorded 2009
Genre Post-punk revival
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
Review scores
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 26 April 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]

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]

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. ↑ "Allmusic review".
  2. ↑ "BBC review".
  3. ↑ "Consequence of Sound".
  4. ↑ "Drowned in Sound review".
  5. ↑ "Pitchfork Media review".
  6. ↑ "Strange Glue review".
  7. ↑ "The Skinny review".
  8. ↑ "Slant Magazine review".
  9. ↑ "Pop Matters review".
  10. ↑ "MusicOMH review".
  11. ↑ "Filter Magazine review".
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Phil Mongredien. Q magazine. June 2010. Albums review. P. 126
  13. ↑ Amazon UK
  14. ↑ Album Vote
  15. ↑ MySpace.com
  16. ↑ RCRDLBL.com
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Clash Music
  18. ↑ This Is Fake DIY
  19. ↑ We All Want Someone