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Foals

Foals

Balloons

Foals are so good they don’t even need choruses – just a sharp cloud of bee-sting guitar orbs that whiz around your ears like ketamine-dipped houseflies. Now, on their third proper single, they’re getting saxophones involved in the precision-guided bluster. Usually the introduction of such an instrument signifies a musical cliff-leap of sorts but here it only adds to the weird Gang Of Four-in-space shebang, not once conjuring the image of Gerry Rafferty, Glen Miller or The bleedin’ Zutons. Foals, it seems, are bulking into muscle-ripped stallions. Ketamine-dipped stallions!

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elmspark 

Jan 2, 2008

foals are bloody amazing

horrorsobsessed1 

Feb 18, 2008

Its a good song but you cant understand a word Yanis says.

Muse26 

Feb 25, 2008

Amazing song. Gr8 review. Foals rule!

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