The Chaos (album)
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| The Chaos | ||||
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| Released | 26 April 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
| Studio | Britannia Row | |||
| Genre | Post-punk revival, indie rock | |||
| Label | Nul Records | |||
| Producer | The Futureheads, Youth | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 77/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Consequence of Sound | [3] |
| Drowned in Sound | [4] |
| Filter | 82%[5] |
| MusicOMH | [6] |
| Pitchfork | 7.3/10[7] |
| PopMatters | 6/10[8] |
| Q | [9] |
| The Skinny | [10] |
| Slant Magazine | [11] |
The Chaos is the fourth album by English post-punk revival band The Futureheads. It was released on 26 April 2010.[12][13] The album is the band's second on their label Nul Records, and was preceded by a download-only single, 'Struck Dumb',[14][15][16] on 2 December 2009.[17]
The track "Struck Dumb", an example of the band's "classic angular guitar-rock",[18] has been described as "a blast of pop-punk energy".[16] 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".[9]
