The Futureheads - Hounds of Love

'There is a magical X factor at work in this band that leaves you bewildered and of course, thrilled' Observer Music Monthly

'The Future is now'NME

'Sunderland's finest come through with the most essential, spasmodic knee jerk arrangements since The Smiths Strangeways…' Dazed & Confused

'14 songs in just 33 rat-a-tata minutes makes this an exuberant debut' Q

'The long awaited antithesis of that maudlin swirl of post-post Coldplay bands, a reminder of that sacred quality of great music: surprise' The Guardian

There are cover versions and then there are cover versions. 'Hounds of Love' is none of the above. Let's face it, doing other people's stuff the last refuge of the creatively bankrupt; either b-side fodder (and "cool" positioning exercise) when all the "exclusive" live versions have run out, or easy pickings for X-Factor A&R departments after a familiar hit that won't frighten the horses.

It wasn't always this way (well, actually it probably was, but for the sake of argument stick with us). Time was when a Joe Cocker could take the unremarkable plod of The Beatles 'With A Little Help From My Friends' and turn it into something genuinely inspirational. Later, of course, The Clash positioned themselves perfectly as the conscious punk band with their ragged heartfelt reading of Junior Murvin's 'Police & Thieves'.
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