Pitchfork

Now there's a twist. The Futureheads may be "all about the future lately," as Pitchfork's Dave Maher recently reported, but in the latest track to emerge from their upcoming third album This Is Not the World, that future includes "The Beginning of the Twist". Like previously posted new Futureheads track "Broke Up the Time", this song from the follow-up to News and Tributes sounds a lot like the Sunderland, UK band's earlier ones, with jerky, shifting rhythms, taut new-wave guitars, and whoa-oh backing vocals. "I can feel it coming, the beginning of the twist," they repeat, and as the song eventually careens into a drums-and-vox breakdown before rest of the instruments pile in again, the chorus becomes a sort of incantantion-- like, say, "Hounds of love are calling." There's also a video of the Futureheads playing "The Beginning of the Twist" live in the streets of London.

Stream:> The Futureheads: "The Beginning of the Twist"
[from This Is Not the World; due May 2008 on Nul]