Futureheads for “complicated” new album

A very quick bio of The Futureheads - Début album released at height of so-called post punk revival, with a top ten hit in the form of Hounds of Love. Second album sees band mature and is critically lauded but a commercial failure - band are dropped by 679 Recordings. Third album sees Futureheads attempt to recreate the sound of their début, but instead sounds uninspired and insipid - it is a huge backwards step.

Fourth album? According to a new 6music interview it’s going to be a bit more “complicated”, with Ross Millard claiming that he “had to go back to practising guitar to even play half these riffs.”

As a huge fan of the criminally underrated News and Tributes, this can only be good news, especially as I had all but written the band off. On the downside, this could all be bullshit, just another band in denial talking up a shit new album. The return of Youth, the man behind the desk on the hugely disappointing This Is Not The World, is also cause for worry.

Why am I getting my hopes up then? Because Youth is only getting his blood-stained hands (seriously, he’s produced pretty much every Embrace album) on one half of the record. The other half is being produced by DAVID BREWIS OF FIELD MUSIC!!!! To find out why I’m so excited about this check out their self-titled début and the excellent Tones of Town on Spotify. With Brewis on board it’s got to be good, right?

The as yet untitled new Futureheads album will be out in early 2010.

Jed. x