The Futureheads have revealed their new record will be an a capella album with no instrumentation.
‘Rant’ will be released on April 2nd and is set to feature a selection of re-arranged Futureheads songs, as well as medieval and traditional folk songs. The new album will be supported with an acoustic and a capella UK tour.
“If we were gonna carry on making music we needed to change it up,” Ross Millard has said. “Making another Futureheads record as per usual wasn’t something that appealed to us. We’ve always been a four-part harmony group; it’s been a massive part of the genetics of this band.”
“A Futureheads fan who doesn’t get ‘Rant’ is not a Futureheads fan,” Barry Hyde continues. “This version of The Futureheads has always been there. We’re bringing to the fore what we’re really about: a unification, a gang mentality, which is in the balance between our voices and our personalities.”
“And on Rant we’re pushing that right into your face. We’ve stumbled across tricks as we’ve made ‘Rant’ which are so powerful and which no one has ever done before. Just because this is an a cappella album doesn’t mean to say that the songs are slow or passive. They’re still in-your-face, slightly mad, aggressive. They’re still The Futureheads.”