The Chaos (album)
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The Chaos is the fourth album by English
post-punk revival
band The Futureheads
. It was released on April 26, 2010. The album is the band's second on their label Nul Records
, and was preceded by a download-only single, 'Struck Dumb', on 2 December 2009.
, 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".
Drummer Dave Hyde has recently been busy with a side project known as Hyde and Beast who make "60s and 70s quirky, almost carnival-esque music", so it is not clear what direction the new Futureheads album will take. The band themselves have described the new material as "complicated".
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.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
post-punk revival
Post-punk revival
The post-punk revival was a development in alternative rock of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in which bands took inspiration from the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and post-punk and New Wave of the late 1970s...
band The Futureheads
The Futureheads
The Futureheads are an English post-punk band from Sunderland. consisting of Ross Millard , Barry Hyde and David "Jaff" Craig...
. It was released on April 26, 2010. The album is the band's second on their label Nul Records
Nul Records
Nul Records is an independent record label set up by the post-punk revival band The Futureheads.-Overview:The Futureheads set up this record label some time after they split with their former record label 679 Recordings in late 2006, apparently disliking the direction they were taking them....
, and was preceded by a download-only single, 'Struck Dumb', on 2 December 2009.
Style
The track 'Struck Dumb', an example of the band's "classic angular guitar-rock", has been described as "a blast of pop-punk energy". As Phil Mongredien of Q magazine put it, though, in The Chaos, as in This Is Not the WorldThis Is Not the World
This Is Not The World is an album by post-punk revivalists The Futureheads.It was released on 26 May 2008, on their own label Nul Records...
, 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".
Drummer Dave Hyde has recently been busy with a side project known as Hyde and Beast who make "60s and 70s quirky, almost carnival-esque music", so it is not clear what direction the new Futureheads album will take. The band themselves have described the new material as "complicated".
Track listing
- "The Chaos" - 4:09
- "Struck Dumb" - 2:50
- "Heartbeat SongHeartbeat Song"Heartbeat Song" is the first single to be taken from the fourth album from The Futureheads, The Chaos. It was released in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2010 and has so far managed to reach a peak of #34 on the UK Singles Chart...
" - 2:29 - "Stop the Noise" - 2:31
- "The Connector" - 2:56
- "I Can Do That" - 3:42
- "Sun Goes Down" - 3:52
- "This Is the Life" - 2:55
- "The Baron" - 3:11
- "Dart at the Map" - 4:04
- "Jupiter" - 6:23
HMV exclusive bonus tracks
- "Bricks & Stones"
- "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.