The Chaos | ||||
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Studio album by The Futureheads | ||||
Released | 26 April 2010 | |||
Recorded | 2009 | |||
Genre | Post-punk revival, indie rock | |||
Label | Nul Records | |||
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Singles from The Chaos | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 77/100 |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
BBC | (positive) |
Consequence of Sound | |
Drowned in Sound | |
Pitchfork Media | (7.3/10) |
Strange Glue | |
The Skinny | |
Slant Magazine | |
Pop Matters | |
MusicOMH | |
Filter Magazine | (82%) |
Q magazine |
The Chaos is the fourth album by English post-punk revival band The Futureheads. It was released on 26 April 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 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 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".
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.