Kudos to The Futureheads for attempting Rant, an entirely a cappella album of R&B covers, traditional folk songs and rearranged morsels from their back catalogue.
The folk material is treated with great gusto, the band capturing a proper polyphonic Wicker Man vibe on "Sumer Is Icumen In" and "The Keeper" (although they rather steamroller the subtleties of Richard Thompson's "Beeswing"); and while their retreads of "Robot" and "Thursday" come perilously close to "Bohemian Rhapsody", the makeovers of Kelis's "Acapella" and Sparks' "The No. 1 Song in Heaven" are brilliant. But the real standout is "Meet Me Halfway", their choral deconstruction transforming The Black Eyed Peas number into something new and entirely original.
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