The Chaos (album)


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.

Style

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".

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

  1. "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.