The Chaos (album)

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 Chaos
Studio album by The Futureheads
Released	26 April 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded	2009
Studio	Britannia Row
Genre	Post-punk revival, indie rock
Label	Nul Records
Producer	The Futureheads, Youth
The Futureheads chronology
This Is Not the World (2008) The Chaos (2010) Rant (2012)
Singles from The Chaos
"Heartbeat Song" Released: 12 April 2010 "I Can Do That" Released: TBC 2010

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
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]

Style

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]

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

12. "Bricks & Stones"
13. "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

Chart performance for The Chaos

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[19]	65
UK Albums (OCC)[20]	48