The Futureheads

Wed., June 2, 8 p.m., $13-$14, with The Like, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: May 25, 2010

rock/pop

The Futureheads always seemed like they were having way more fun than their U.K. compatriots in the mid-'00s "angular" wave, jutting out from the somewhat dour likes of Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand with their absurdly endearing, brusquely bouncy vocal harmonies and a choppy pop-punk urgency bordering on goofiness. That energy never really went away, despite a few albums bogged down in refinement and diminishing returns, and their newest, The Chaos (Phantasm), feels gleefully reinvigorated, living up to its overdetermined title with scrappy nuggets like the manic, chord-a-second "This Is the Life" and dead-hooky "Heartbeat Song."

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