The Chaos (album)

The Chaos
Studio album by
The Futureheads
Released26 April 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded2009
StudioBritannia Row
GenrePost-punk revival, indie rock
LabelNul Records
ProducerThe 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
Metacritic77/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Consequence of Sound[3]
Drowned in Sound[4]
Filter82%[5]
MusicOMH[6]
Pitchfork7.3/10[7]
PopMatters6/10[8]
Q[9]
The Skinny[10]
Slant Magazine[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]

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

  2. "Bricks & Stones"
  3. "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

References

  1. ^ "The Chaos by The Futureheads". Metacritic. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Allmusic review".
  3. ^ "Consequence of Sound".
  4. ^ "Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Filter Magazine review".
  6. ^ "MusicOMH review".
  7. ^ "Pitchfork Media review". Pitchfork.
  8. ^ "PopMatters review".
  9. ^ a b Phil Mongredien. Q. June 2010. Albums review. P. 126
  10. ^ "The Skinny review".
  11. ^ "Slant Magazine review". Slant Magazine.
  12. ^ "The Chaos". 26 April 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2016 – via Amazon.
  13. ^ Album Vote Archived 2010-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Featured Content on Myspace". Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  15. ^ RCRDLBL.com Archived 2010-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ a b "Futureheads Download Exclusive". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  17. ^ This Is Fake DIY
  18. ^ "[NEW] The Futureheads – Struck Dumb at We All Want Someone To Shout For". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  19. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  20. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 March 2021.