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The Chaos (album)

The Chaos
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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
  1. "Heartbeat Song"
    Released: 12 April 2010
  2. "I Can Do That"
    Released: TBC 2010
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 77/100
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars
BBC (positive)
Consequence of Sound 3.5/5 stars
Drowned in Sound 8/10 stars
Pitchfork Media (7.3/10)
Strange Glue 3/5 stars
The Skinny 4/5 stars
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars
Pop Matters 6/10 stars
MusicOMH 3.5/5 stars
Filter Magazine (82%)
Q magazine 4/5 stars

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.


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