And the good news is, the 'Heads' second album is a winner   Full text...

Phew. Didn't it get weird there for a minute? Some kind of bizarre Northern cover of Hounds Of Love in the top ten? Brrr. Too strange. Because out of all of the new-new-new-new-new wave bands who made it big, The Futureheads have got to be the oddest.  Full text...

It's a bold step forward, and could just do the job to take The Futureheads up to the next level. Not weird, just slightly challenging.   Full text...

Running on accepted music biz logic, their second album, News And Tributes, should set out to consolidate such success with a suite of polished post-punk tracks, all Gang Of Four jerkiness and barber’s shop four-part harmonies.  Full text...

Unlike its predecessor, the work of dizzy young band so anxious to assert its unique voice that it couldn't stop reiterating the same ideas, News and Tributes is proudly diverse, scooping from every flavor in the freezer.  Full text...

The group certainly leans on punkish guitars the more rock side of new wave, but they also bring full-band vocal complexities that should serve them just as well on a given album as they did as a differentiating factor on their self-titled debut.  Full text...

'News And Tributes' is a collection of solid, thoughtful guitar pop that recalls XTC, the Icicle Works and Elvis Costello in places, garnished with typically thoughtful, left-field lyrics.  Full text...

They've proved to be one of the few acts of the current UK wave to deliver a second album worth listening to.  Full text...

With their reworking of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love still ringing in their ears, the Futureheads have, if not torn up their post-punk template, tailored it to a smoother fit for their second album.  Full text...

The acclaim that followed makes the decision to abandon much of their distinctive sound on News and Tributes all the bolder. The songs are longer, and you quickly sense a stubborn frigidity at work; you want the pulse-racing titillation of last time round, they want to stay up all night talking. It's only during the fuzzy organ swells and sugar-sweet harmonies of Thursday that the Futureheads reveal themselves to be the hot talent that you know they are.  Full text...

If the debut album could have been recorded in a high octane half hour in a garden shed, then News and Tributes certainly bears the trappings of success.  Full text...

Fortunately, while more restrained than The Futureheads' debut, News and Tributes is sufficiently chock-full of catchy tunes, four-part harmonies, handclaps and passion to remove all doubt about the band's talent for crafting memorable original material.   Full text...

No Muse-style supermassive re-invention for The Futureheads second album. Instead News And Tributes finds the Sunderland outfit honing their craft and occasionally stretching it.  Full text...

A series of jerky, uncomfortable tracks that seem uncertain of their own appeal.  Full text...