The Chaos (album)

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The Chaos
FUTUREHEADS THE CHAOS COVER.jpg
Studio album by
Released26 April 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded2009
StudioBritannia Row
Genre Post-punk revival, indie rock
Label Nul Records
Producer The Futureheads, Youth
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
Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Filter 82% [5]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 7.3/10 [7]
PopMatters 6/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]

The Chaos is the fourth album by English post-punk revival band The Futureheads. It was released on 26 April 2010. [12] [13] The album is the band's second on their label Nul Records, and was preceded by a download-only single, 'Struck Dumb', [14] [15] [16] on 2 December 2009. [17]

Contents

Style

The track "Struck Dumb", an example of the band's "classic angular guitar-rock", [18] has been described as "a blast of pop-punk energy". [16] 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". [9]

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.

Charts

Chart performance for The Chaos
Chart (2010)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [19] 65
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 48

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