Oxford’s Foals made a huge splash when they arrived on the music scene a couple of years back; offering a growling, chaotic and murderously funky disco rock, they were the Klaxons but ten times dirtier. But after the auspicious start, the quintet hated their album and a long period of silence followed. Thankfully, Foals have just announced a second album, Total Life Forever, to be out on 10 May. A song from it, Spanish Sahara, is on video below, with a free Mount Kimbie remix available for download below too. The tune suggests the ”lusher” sound the band recently pledged: a more elegant tumult while just as dark, the sound rarefied with a ghostly, trance-like feel. For the shake-up, Mount Kimbie take that sense of foreboding and run with it.
There’s an Electric Ballroom date on Mon 10 May (tix on sale from Fri 12 March), and I have half a hunch that Foals might return to light up Field Day again in July. We’ll see.
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MP3: Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie remix)