The Chaos (album)

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The Chaos
FUTUREHEADS THE CHAOS COVER.jpg
Studio album by The Futureheads
Released 26 April 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded 2009
Genre Post-punk revival
Label Nul Records
The Futureheads chronology
This Is Not the World
(2008)String Module Error: Match not found2008		 The Chaos
(2010)		 Rant
(2012)Rant2012
Singles from The Chaos
  1. "Heartbeat Song"
    Released: 12 April 2010
  2. "I Can Do That"
    Released: TBC 2010
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 77/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[2]
BBC (positive)[3]
Consequence of Sound 3.5/5 stars[4]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 stars[5]
Pitchfork Media (7.3/10)[6]
Strange Glue 3/5 stars[7]
The Skinny 4/5 stars[8]
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars[9]
Pop Matters 6/10 stars[10]
MusicOMH 3.5/5 stars[11]
Filter Magazine (82%)[12]
Q magazine 4/5 stars[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
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  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Phil Mongredien. Q magazine. June 2010. Albums review. P. 126
  14. ↑ Amazon UK
  15. ↑ Album Vote
  16. ↑ MySpace.com
  17. ↑ RCRDLBL.com
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Clash Music
  19. ↑ This Is Fake DIY
  20. ↑ We All Want Someone
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