- Wed, 2012-02-15 15:12
The Futureheads have today announced details of their new, fully A cappella album Rant.
Set to be released on 2nd April via their own label Nul Records, the album will feature a number of re-arranged Futureheads tracks plus medieval and traditional folk songs.
Chatting to I Like Music last year around the release of his side project Hyde & Beast, Futurehead Dave Hyde told us the record had been hard work:
"It's a completely different process to writing a guitar album, obviously. You spend all day singing rather than playing, it's been quite an odd process but we're all really chuffed with it. I think on some of the songs there's like forty vocal tracks to a part, you know? We kind of recorded one part, then swapped parts, then over-dubbed each others parts, whilst singing..."
Track three from the record will be Robot, originally the second track on their self-titled debut album. Listen to the a cappella version below:
The Futureheads have also announced a full UK tour in April 2012. Tickets will go on sale at 10am on 21st February 2012:
Futureheads UK Tour April 2012
3rd: Bristol, Colston Hall
4th: London, Union Chapel
5th: Leeds, Wardrobe
6th: Stockton, Georgian Theatre
8th: Gateshead, Sage
9th: Glasgow, Oran Mor
10th: Birmingham, Glee Club
12th: Nottingham, Glee Club
13th: Manchester, Royal Northern College of Music
Rant tracklist
1. Meantime
2. Meet Me Halfway (The Black Eyed Peas cover)
3. Robot
4. Beeswing (Richard Thompson cover)
5. Thursday
6. Sumer Is Icumen In (Traditional)
7. The Keeper (Traditional)
8. The No. 1 Song in Heaven (Sparks cover)
9. The Old Dun Cow (Traditional)
10. Acapella (Kelis cover)
11. Man Ray
Bonus: Heartbeat Song (Digital only)
