The Futureheads
This Is Not The World

"The Beginning Of The Twist" was one hell of a way to kick off an album. The Futureheads dropped whatever they were doing with their sophomore album, ...

Released almost exactly two years ago, The Futureheads' second album was sunk by its title track. "News And Tributes" was a dull, lugubrious song whic...

The chunkiest of the post-punk Brit-revival wave, The Futureheads always make their songs sound like work: Where Franz Ferdinand et. al. aim for suppl...

The Futureheads are the Futureheads on their third full-length, This Is Not the World—rhythmically anxious, melodically electrifying, and almost mecha...

When 2006's News & Tributes, with its restless genre-surfing and morose aura, didn't move units, 679 dropped the Futureheads, who in turn eagerly star...

This decade seems inundated with one-hit wonders pumped up and then dumped by fair weather bloggers and music fans. With their 2004 self-titled debut...

From top-ten chasing hounds of love, to neutered puppies without even a record deal to their names, recent times have been hard for wor 'Heads. T...

Not so long ago, it looked like the Futureheads were a thing of the past. Dropped by Warner after a disappointing second album, "News and Tributes," i...

The last place most bands want to be when releasing their third full-length is out in the world alone, doing it for themselves. A nimble, wound-up bal...

Let’s not kid ourselves: This Is Not The World was almost the album that never happened. So many great bands fold after being dropped by major labels,...