The Futureheads
- The Futureheads
- Band Name: The Futureheads
- Record Label: 679 / Sire
- Release Date: Oct 26, 2004
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Stop pretending that Morrissey is still relevant, that the Libertines are actually good and that you understand Radiohead. The Futureheads will give you everything you need, if you just let them. [Dec 2004, p.144]
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90The reason The Futureheads is so good is because, quite simply, the music is simply stunning.
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This band is so exciting it's almost unbearable.
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Phenomenal, with nary a bum track.
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88The urgency of the music and the quality vocal and guitar hooks make this one of the best rock albums of the year. [#13, p.98]
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83The Futureheads rely on actual chops and the kind of melodic astuteness usually associated with piano-pop balladeers, and in doing so, they exhibit complete control over their music and intertwining vocal deliveries.
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There's that Ramones sense that songs should be short like life, and that XTC sense that songs should be complicated like life.
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Wisely keeps things short, sharp and shocked. [19 Nov 2004, p.85]
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83They add enough kinks to the old herky-jerk formulae to make their half-hour in the sun blaze by like nobody's business. [Dec 2004, p.124]
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It begins to sink in that this band has performed a theoretical feat of Hawking proportions: it has devised a fool-proof formula for the unformulaic.
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A sparkly, concise art-rock delight. [10 Jul 2004, p.47]
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80A confident, rampant holler that bristles with the energies of prime new wave, the proselytising vigour of the most barnstorming white soul, and the wry, cerebral kickback of most of the artier artists of the last thirty years.
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80Explores the previously uncharted territory where shouty alt.rock meets a cappella vocals and skinny-tied new-wave melody. [Nov 2004, p.99]
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80Sounding like a lost classic from Britain's 1979 art-punk scene, the Futureheads' debut is an assured masterpiece of twitchy, nervous pop.
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While a little more depth in their songwriting would make them unstoppable, the Futureheads' first full-length is an undeniably exciting debut that just gets better with repeated listens.
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80An exuberant debut. [Aug 2004, p.110]
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The Futureheads reclaim pop punk from the Warped Tour crowd -- and revive it in the process.
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80It's positively dizzying during the first few listens, but once listeners start to differentiate between each song, this album's sly pop rock genius is obvious.
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Think Polyrock or Chairs Missing-era Wire in terms of the stripped-down elementalism of the instrumentation, but think Ikara Colt in terms of delivery.
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A punchy and exciting debut.
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The group's edgy, fast-paced New Wave 2K brand of rock recalls the sharp, nerdy delivery of XTC, the impassioned focus of the Jam and ping-ponging hooks reminiscent of the Vapors.
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75Neither the songs' structures nor their lyrics offer rich rewards after close listening and dissection.
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As all sugar-highs go, this can leave you a bit lightheaded before it's over. [#8, p.109]
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70The proceedings get a little bit samey, but the band's fearless optimism and knack for a bookish groove are hard to deny. [Dec 2004, p.140]
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Positive: 39 out of 43
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DaleP6Honestly can't see what the all the fuss is about.
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GarrisonS10
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ElizabethJ10It so Great. WhEn i saw thm at the franz ferdinand cosetrt there songs were cool. I especially like 'sKip 2 tHe EnD'.