Artist: The Futureheads
Title: The Chaos
Label: Nul
Genre: Rock
Bitrate: 214kbit av.
Time: 00:45:10
Size: 72.64 mb
Rip Date: 2010-04-24
Str Date: 2010-04-26
01. The Chaos 4:10
02. Struck Dumb 2:50
03. Heartbeat Song 2:29
04. Stop The Noise 2:31
05. The Connector 2:56
06. I Can Do That 3:42
07. Sun Goes Down 3:52
08. This Is The Life 2:55
09. The Baron 3:11
10. Dart At The Map 4:04
11. Jupiter 4:01
12. Bricks & Stones (Bonus Track) 4:08
13. Local Man Of The World (Bonus Track) 4:21
Release Notes:
ItÆs easy to forget the trajectory of stardom this Sunderland
four-piece were on before they dropped 2006Æs esoteric News and
Tributes: the bandÆs second album, and a befuddling listen if youÆd
been reared on the student disco fodder of their eponymous 2004 debut.
Singer Barry Hyde summed it up at the time: ôIt was almost like we made
our fifth album second, like we jumped ahead of ourselves.ö
Nevertheless, fans smiled and thought: ôCanÆt wait to hear album number
six.ö
See, The Futureheads always had more nous, more range, more brains than
their indie punk peers. Remember that this is a band whose early gigs
saw them dressed as robots, a la Devo, and miming along to their songs
on a tour of German squats like a new-wave boyband.
While 2008Æs This Is Not the World (their first for own Nul label after
leaving 679) tried gallantly to marry their passion for art-school
weird and rent-paying big tunes, there was always the hope amongst
their fanbase that the band might give up on their commercial dreams,
instead ploughing the oddness that always set them apart from the pack.
Album number four delivers on that hope. The Baron pairs bee
swarm-style Thurston Moore guitars with the innovative studio smarts of
Queen at their most thrillingly pompous, while, XTC-indebted hooks and
crooks aside, Jupiter is a telling reminder that there are few better
bands at structuring four-part harmonies than them. Then thereÆs Sun
Goes Down, the groupÆs most unnerving moment to date, HydeÆs guitar
prowling within a maze of fug and sleaze. ôThe sun goes down,ö he
gasps, ôand the double life begins. ItÆs a one way ticket to the city
of sin.ö ItÆs less Decent Days and Nights, more Decent Nights and
Tormented Early Mornings.
With fitting perverseness the album might even reward them with their
most legitimate pop hit to date. Lead single Heartbeat Song would have
glistened even within the pop-heavy tracklisting of their first album.
One can only hope its inevitable mainstream success will fund BritainÆs
most interesting guitar bandÆs ongoing expedition of weirdness.
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