The Futureheads

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The Futureheads' first album in nine years, ’Powers,’ is out August 30.

Listen to new songs by Iggy Pop, Death Cab For Cutie, Ghostface Killah, The Futureheads, Long Beard, Coffins, Operator Music Band, and more.

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The band's first proper album in nine years will be out this August.

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Of the new album, The Futureheads say it's ”a return, we hope, to bombastic, daring, creative righteousness.”

It's that time of year already I guess. NME quizzed a whole bunch of artists about their favorite album of the year. Bat For Lashes chose Alt-J who recently won the Mercury Prize and who chose Polica as their favorite...

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DOWNLOAD: The Futureheads - Struck Dumb (MP3)Until the Futureheads blasted into the Top 10, five years back, with a spiky post-punk cover of Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love," Sunderland had been a musical backwater, with only Kenickie, the Lauren Laverne fronted punk-pop outfit, making a …