Foals - 'Total Life Forever' (Warner Bros)
Pity Foals . All they ever wanted was a steady supply of Rizlas and to play weird music. Unfortunately they wrote a couple of songs some kids enjoyed dancing to, but then had the temerity to follow them with an excellent, underrated debut that...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (6/03/10)
1. Foals – ‘Spanish Sahara’ You know Foals, right? HIghbrow, twitchy Oxonian math-poppers? Well, prepare to unknow them. In the ‘Sea Within A Sea’ school of odd comebacks, this taste of new album ‘Total Life Forever’, out May 10,...
Live Review: Foals/Two Door Cinema/Wet Paint
There’s a short alien gimp onstage below a railway arch. Poured into silver Lycra, the thing grabs a mic and starts making noise from its foodhole. “Oooeeeoooh,” it breathes. “Eeeeeeiiiiaaaaoh!” Four dudes in T-shirts tumble into view,...
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The dressing room says it all, really. A mixture of Bacchanalian debauchery (mojitos, grapes, buckets of booze, champagne, vodka smoothies) and kids’ birthday decorations (party poppers, inflatable microphones, transfer tattoos), it’s a room...
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Shorn of all its insular, middle-of-the-album tension, ‘Olympic Airways’ reveals itself to be more of a slow-burning anthem than ‘Balloons’, ‘Cassius’ or even ‘Red Socks Pugie’. Gripped by its subtle desperation for an escape from...
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Don’t be surprised if Foals’ addiction to self-sabotage results in the dubby, paranoid Various Productions remix ending up as the A-side. However, this album version remains the best thing Foals have written: soaring, sincere, emotional,...
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How To Deal With Hype, lesson #1: on Never Mind The Buzzcocks earlier this year, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis received the traditional ribbing from Simon Amstell about their status as buzz band of the moment. “You wake up every morning,...
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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...
Foals; Bowery Ballroom, New York, Saturday...
Every year at New York’s new music marathon CMJ, one band wears the sacred halo of buzz, and for 2007 the word on the street is noticeably equine. Frontman Yannis is typically modest, telling gushing journalists, “this show is gonna suck”...
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To call the cochlea-shredding start of ‘Matchletics’ tinny would be like describing the collective oeuvre of Public Enemy as ‘a little bit tetchy.’ However, once it gets the so-high-only-a-dog-could-dance-to-it fret explorations out of the...
