Pop: Foals

Foals Foals Foals. With a new album "Antidotes" out, these five guys reek of yummy British accents and strange obscure bleeping sounds in the middle of their songs.

Yannis Philippakis
Jack Bevan
Jimmy Smith
Edwin Congreave
Walter Gervers

Formed by various cliques of childhood friends; a pair of Oxford drop-outs, a pair of cult math-rockers & then some, Foals bring a unique mix of sounds to the fore: they fuse synthesizers with guitar lines. Their music is experimentative, having been produced by Dave Sitek of "TV on the Radio" -- it's a mixture of the usual mechanic techno beats & slightly more unusual 12-piece brass afro-beats, and it's bit of a rollercoaster listen through the whole album.

If you like the experimentative, math rock, obscure (and sometimes slightly angry?) lyrics or even just a bit of unclassifiable synthesised pop, then this band is one you should definitely check out; their debut album has been heralded as one of the best Britain will see released this year, and tracks such as "Cassius" & "Electric Bloom" do not disappoint :-)