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

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2. "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

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