Watch Foals talk us through new album ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 1’ track-by-track

WARNING: Features Alan Partridge bass and "bulbous nugs"

“We’re not a one-dimensional band,” Foals’ frontman Yannis Philippakis told NME for this week’s Big Read cover story. “There’s a cockiness in feeling like we can put our hand to a variety of ways of expressing what we want, while still in some way being identifiably Foals. There’s a freedom in that. The fan base is one that’s grown with us. They expect these jumps and expect something new.”

Dealing with the “the post-millennial dread that everyone’s swimming in” as it sets environmental decline, societal collapse, chaos and confusion to Balearic beats, sci-fi synths, prog rock riffs and a touch of the cinematic, new album ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 1‘ is not only a huge leap forward – but arguably the best thing they’ve ever done.

Watch our video interview above as Foals talk us through the creation, inspiration and meaning of each track on their new record.

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WARNING: Features Alan Partridge bass and “bulbous nugs”

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In our five-star review of the album, NME concluded: “Regardless of where you checked in on Foals’ journey – or, heaven forbid, checked out again ­– there’s something to sink into on ‘Everything Not Saved… Part 1’. The intricacies and experimentalism of those math-rock early days, the spacey ambience of ‘Total Life Forever’, and the bolshy production brilliance of those last two records: it’s all here.

“If this is just the first act of ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’, then this era may just prove to be Foals’ making.”

Watch our full track-by-track interview and guide through the album at the top of the page. 

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