The Chaos (album)

The Chaos
Studio album by The Futureheads
Released	26 April 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded	2009
Genre	Post-punk revival, indie rock
Label	Nul Records
The Futureheads chronology
This Is Not the World (2008) The Chaos (2010) Rant (2012)
Singles from The Chaos
"Heartbeat Song" Released: 12 April 2010 "I Can Do That" Released: TBC 2010

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
BBC	(positive)[3]
Consequence of Sound	[4]
Drowned in Sound	[5]
Pitchfork Media	(7.3/10)[6]
Strange Glue	[7]
The Skinny	[8]
Slant Magazine	[9]
Pop Matters	[10]
MusicOMH	[11]
Filter Magazine	(82%)[12]
Q magazine	[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

12. "Bricks & Stones"
13. "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. ↑ "The Chaos by The Futureheads". Retrieved 5 October 2016. 
2. ↑ "Allmusic review". 
3. ↑ "BBC review". 
4. ↑ "Consequence of Sound". 
5. ↑ "Drowned in Sound review". 
6. ↑ "Pitchfork Media review". 
7. ↑ "Strange Glue review". 
8. ↑ "The Skinny review". 
9. ↑ "Slant Magazine review". 
10. ↑ "Pop Matters review". 
11. ↑ "MusicOMH review". 
12. ↑ "Filter Magazine review". 
13. 1 2 Phil Mongredien. Q magazine. June 2010. Albums review. P. 126
14. ↑ "The Chaos". 26 April 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2016 – via Amazon. 
15. ↑ Album Vote
16. ↑ "Featured Content on Myspace". Retrieved 5 October 2016. 
17. ↑ RCRDLBL.com
18. 1 2 "Futureheads Download Exclusive". Retrieved 5 October 2016. 
19. ↑ This Is Fake DIY
20. ↑ "[NEW] The Futureheads – Struck Dumb at We All Want Someone To Shout For". Retrieved 5 October 2016.