Foals: “What Went Down”
Foals are a different band to different people. Depending on who you ask, the Oxford lads could be called math rock, borderline metal and/or radio-friendly indie rock.
Confusion aside, one thing is certain —...
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Funk groovin', rafter climbin' UK rockers Foals will grace the stage at Madison's High Noon Saloon this Wednesday, July 31. The indie rock quintet, whose records have consistently made the Top 10 in England, ha...
Foals: “My Number”
UK rockers Foals first made a presence with 2008's Antidotes, a twitchy math rock workout that led to success in the States and even greater success in their home territory. Foals' two albums since, 2010's Tota...
Foals: “Inhaler”
Foals began when the math rock staple The Edmund Fitzgerald broke up. Jack Bevan, Lina Simon, and Yannis Philippakis felt as if making tech music was too serious and was not fun enough for them. For those unfam...
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WEEKEND VIDEO
"Blue Blood"Total Life Forever2010iTunes
Foals' hit debut Antidotes was best characterized by a marked, hybridized method of indie, math, and dance-punk styles. It was enlivening,...
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"Miami"from the album Total Life Forever2010iTunesIn one of those rare moments when a song grabs hold of you by your sceptical collar and, with its groovy vibrations, dislodges the cynical earwax from your ears...
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"Spanish Sahara"from the album Total Life Forever2010iTunesLaunching a generation of math-rock copyists with debut album Antidotes, Foals are keen to prove that they are no trend-riding band of scenesters.Recor...
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WEEKEND VIDEO
"This Orient"Total Life Forever2010iTunes
Second albums, as John Lennon once famously remarked, are what happen when you're busy making other plans. Just ask Oxford five-piece Foa...
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"Balloons"from the album Antidotes2008iTunesFoals make hard, trebly, uncomfortable, spiky, anxious, uptight, straining-to-be-different music, and for all that, it's rather good. Fumes of energy and ambition rol...