“A ceaselessly innovative mix of post-punk dynamics, melodic nous and intricate four-part harmonies always set the Futureheads apart from their 00s indie peers. Indeed, there’s an argument that had they come from Brooklyn instead of Sunderland they could have been huge. As it was, when they went on hiatus after 2012’s entirely a cappella set Rant, it caused barely a stir. Frontman Barry Hyde broke ”
“Back in the resurgent guitar wave of the noughties, The Futureheads were the jittery, nascent upstarts adding a very northern twang to a landscape revitalized by some of New York’s finest. Signed to the (once) effervescent 679 recordings, they joined a distinct hubbub of label mates in The Streets, Death From Above 1979, Kano and the Mystery Jets all contorting music in very different ways. And f”
