''News and Tributes'' is the second full-length album by

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, released on 29 May 2006. The first single " Skip to the End" was released on 15 May 2006. The album, like their debut, received critical acclaim, and praise that the Futureheads had 'matured' their sound. However unlike their debut it did not sell very well, and led to the band being dumped by their label

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. With this album The Futureheads garnered comparisons to Blur, and particularly the album ''

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''. It was produced by

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, who has also produced for Blur and Depeche Mode. Singer/lyricist/guitarist Barry Hyde has revealed recently that second single "Worry About It Later" concerns "...modern attitudes towards casual sex". The song "News and Tributes" is dedicated to the victims of the Munich air disaster, when a plane with many Manchester United players on board crashed in

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in 1958. The US edition of the album contains the four tracks only available on the ''Area'' EP, "Area", "Help Us Out", "We Cannot Lose" and the

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remix of "Decent Days And Nights".

Track listing

# "Yes/No" – 3:00 # "Cope" – 2:51 # "Fallout" – 2:59 # " Skip to the End" – 2:54 # "Burnt" – 3:41 # "News and Tributes" – 3:49 # "The Return of the Berserker" – 2:36 # "Back to the Sea" – 3:24 # " Worry About It Later" – 3:38 # "Favours for Favours" – 2:52 # "Thursday" – 3:46 # "Face" – 3:31 US bonus tracks #

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" – 2:46 # "Help Us Out" – 2:21 # "We Cannot Lose" – 2:31 # " Decent Days and Nights" (

remix) – 4:35

B-sides

"Skip to the End" was accompanied by three B-sides when it was released as a single in 2006. # "Easy for Us" # "History Itself" # "Last Time Ever"

Charts

References

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