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Has anyone heard the new Futureheads' "News and Tributes" disc? I'm curious to hear ya think. I think it's unbelievable. I love how they take the rubric of the dance-punk revival (which i fucking loathe!) but separate themselves from said chaff by doing yknow anthems. track 9 "worry about it later" is retardedly good.

― odtron5000 (odtron5000), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

...and the beach boys-meets moz-screwing girl groups track...

― kevinod (odtron5000), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

i like the futureheads. they put bros before hoes.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

(which i fucking loathe!)

― muffins, Sunday, 23 April 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

I want to hear this real bad. "Skip to the End" is amazing.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Sunday, 23 April 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

What is going to happen to their name in the future? "Currentheads"?

― Esteban Butthead (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 23 April 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

their music is fun, and the guitarist is super cute.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

phil, i second that emotion.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I also desperately want to hear this. Only then can I properly weigh in.

― Jouster (Jouster), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

What I'm saying is, is there any way I can hear this? I've checked the usual channels, no dice. I'll take streaming audio at this point, I just want to hear it.

― Jouster (Jouster), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's fucking good.

The copy sent to me was watermarked and wouldn't play in my Mac. I couldn't get it running in Virtual PC but did end up hacking it and ripping it. Fuck you, Vagrant. Eat my shit, label whores. I WIN. It's ON MY HARD DRIVE AND MY iPOD YOU DUMBFUCKS.

Anyway, if you like the last one you'll love News and Tributes.

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 23 April 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

the gall of those guys to give you something for free

― pinder (pinder), Monday, 24 April 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

i like 'Skip To The End' quite a bit. it's totally Nick Heyward.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 30 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Futureheads are that kind of band that at first you think are a bit better than the (2-3 year old) crop of postpunk bands...then you listen and listen and realize that they're fucking fantastic - an amazing band that never deserved to be lumped in to that scene...

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't enjoy this album very much. I really can't say why, it just seems like they made their "Fast" album the first time around, now this one is their (predominantly) "Slow" album.

I'm just not feelin' it.

Sigh.

Hower, the new Starlight Mints is fucking amazing.

― Erock LAzron, Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Skip to the End on MTV or VH2 or whatever a couple of days ago and it was really really crap. Disappointing cos I thought their 1st album was OK compared to most of this nu-Britpop rubbish.

I feel like I must be getting old but all these new haircut bands are so fucking shite. I'm usually quite tolerant to indie rubbish but they're really stretching the limits now. I mean Boy Kill Boy WTF???

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 May 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

i find this to have more in common with Haircut 100/Aztec Camera/80s style pop-rock rather than 90s Britpop. and the faster stuff more in line with sounds before that (Jam etc.). Which may mean it's the NEXT album which will sound the most 90s Britpoppy :/

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 1 May 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

The copy sent to me was watermarked and wouldn't play in my Mac

hmm. the copy i have here is watermarked and appears okay in my mac. dunno if it'll rip properly, but hey.

i am moderately excited about it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was moderately excited about the prospect of this until I read the latest Mojo, whose review is somewhat underwhelming....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

They should do a grindie album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

I really really like this. It's on OiNK now. Back to the Sea is a great song.

― Jouster (Jouster), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

i got it off s1sk over a week ago. it's good but hasn't grab me yet, need to listen again.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's rather fantastic. i really, really like it. need to listen a bit more to hone my critical judgement, but: it's top. some of the vocal harmonies are quite beautiful this time round.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

i must try harder to find this

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was underwhelmed by 'Skip To The End' because it's quite a plain song without much happening, but there is loads going on in the album. it's busy with noise and ideas. they basically threw out everything but the harmonies and came back different. the new Walkmen isn't getting a look in today.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's really quite good. It is just as manic as the first, except that all the craziness has been piled into one track - "Return of the Beserker" - instead of being spread out all over the record.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ok you lucky assholes, I haven't heard anything since "Area", which I thought was only ok ... like a watered-down version of something off the s/t. So the fact that they're going different is encouraging. Like a chump, I will wait until it's actually, you know, released. At which point everyone here will have USED THE DAMN THING UP with all their listening and there will be none left for me. But I'm used to it.

Also, based on this thread, paulhw is a genius and a saint and everyone should heed his words.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

It sounds like The Who! But I'm afraid I don't like it anywhere near as much as their debut. Where have all the good tunes gone?

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 26 May 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

they're there. listen harder ;)

i absolutely love this. i think it's a truly fantastic album. it's just ... crammed. with frenzied wonder. i love it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 May 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

don't like this band

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 May 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

RJG I can only imagine the pain, and despair that must have been your constant companions as you typed those words ... and I understand nothing I can say can make it better ... but please, before you do anything drastic, understand that tomorrow is another day, and sometimes even straightforward guitar/bass/vox/drums can be an acquired taste, and even though you can't see it now, you will like the Futureheads one day, and even, yes, laugh, smile, sit in the sunshine like any other human being.

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

don't know what you're talking about

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Lukas is correct. This new album grows so quickly, so wonderfully...the first was really fun and great, but this is something else. Immense, experimental, and like nothing else around right now...

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 17 June 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

In my enthusiasm, I ordered it from CD Wow before release date, not realizing it was coming out just last week in the U.S. I'm kicking myself cuz the U.S. release has about five bonus tracks. How are they?

I've been listening to this for two months, and it still holds up as many times better than their debut, save for anything as catchy as their "Hounds of Love" single. I love all the twists and turns they take. Reminds me somewhat of middle period Jam.

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Sunday, 18 June 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

the more time i spend listening to this band, the more i begin to think they have the potential to become truly, truly mindblowing. "news and tributes" is glorious, but it still sounds like an awakening. this gladdens me: it's always good to have something to look forward to.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 18 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

This album has really been underrated and underestimated. "Thursday" in particular is gorgeous.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

yes and yes... yes

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like this a lot- the harmonies are great, instead of having the whole disjointed stop-start thing they just hold back and have one really weird, ambiguous sounding one come out of nowhere at just the right point. Or y'know, on "Fallout" and "News and Tributes" at least. Also, I initially didn't pay enough attention to the lyrics on the latter to realise it was a Moving Tribute To Dead Football team, which kind of gave it an added weird-pathos-kick.

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Sunday, 18 June 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

...and the scales tip. Did all of you conspire today to beef up the record sales? I've listened to this several times and am still frustrated by it's lack of fire and complexity with respect to the self-titled album. Now I feel obligated to at least try and reconsider News and Tributes. I don't know, no matter how much of a grower this is, the last track is pretty dull. Maybe it's not fair for me to compare it to Man Ray.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Sunday, 18 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't have the fire or complexity of the 1st, if you're talking about speed / stop-starts, and slightly unpredictable structures. What it does have is melodies and moods that reveal themselves a little bit slowly, and feel all the richer for it.

"Favours for Favours" is the most gorgeous thing they've done. And "Thursday" is beautiful too. It feels quite personal too - the lyrics are a little bit smarter, the whole mood just *gets at something* that is quite unusual in most bands (the ones I hear, anyway). It's yearning without being cloying, maybe.

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 18 June 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

dropped by 679, apparently?

― the gangsta Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (H2-H4), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

"I suppose you could say we're in between labels."

― the gangsta Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (H2-H4), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

it's a topsy-turvy world.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

INDIE MUSIC RIP YOU WERE MY FAVOURITEST GENRE

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

679 gotta put money aside to promote the next multi-million selling Kano album, obv.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't 679 Annie's label too?

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

yup. i read somewhere that she got dropped as well.
look out mystery jetssssssss

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

and the streets?

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Is The Beats a subsidary of 679? Wikipedia says godawful Brithop shouters The Mitchell Brothers are signed to 679, but I thought t'was the former.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

man I hated the Futureheads' second album with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns, but dropping them and keeping the Secret Machines = HOT GARBAGE

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

This Is Not the World is being dl now. :-|

― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2008 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

give me future head

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 5 April 2008 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

their "mature" record was so bland. hope they spiced this one before serving.

― Cosmo Vitelli, Saturday, 5 April 2008 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

Me too. I was so disappointed with News and Tributes that I returned it after a couple of days. I almost never do that.

― MacDara, Saturday, 5 April 2008 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

C'mon, News and Tributes wasn't THAT bad, more than half of the songs were quite good. Most of today's bands made a worse difficult second album than the Futureheads.

― zeus, Saturday, 5 April 2008 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

So, the album already came out. Not bad.

― zeus, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

So...

― jeff, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

Pretty good on first listen. A few standouts and the rest are pretty samey.

― jeff, Friday, 26 March 2010 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/FUTUREHEADS_THE_CHAOS_COVER.jpg

The Chaos is the fourth album by English band The Futureheads. It will be released on April 26, 2010 on their label Nul Records, released in America on June 1, 2010 on Dovecote Records. The Chaos was recorded over a series of sessions with David Brewis of Field Music and renowned producer Youth.

1. The Chaos
2. Struck Dumb
3. Heartbeat Song
4. Stop The Noise
5. The Connector
6. I Can Do That
7. Sun Goes Down
8. This Is The Life
9. The Baron
10. Dart At The Map
11. Jupiter

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Not really into the new album at all but saw them last night and they were pretty great. Played enough stuff off the first two to make it worthwhile and were a lot of fun as always.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 11:34 (fifteen years ago)

i miss the futureheads :(

(not enough to bother with the new album, tho tbh)

― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 12:34 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

I really really REALLY like their Christmas single:
http://soundcloud.com/theartof/the-futureheads-christmas-was-better-in-the-80s

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 9 December 2010 08:03 (fifteen years ago)

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