Latest Release
- 19 MAY 2023
- 10 Songs
- Holy Fire · 2012
- What Went Down · 2015
- Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part II · 2019
- Life Is Yours · 2022
- What Went Down · 2015
- Wake Me Up - Single · 2021
- Life Is Yours · 2022
- Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part I · 2019
- Hypercolour - Single · 2020
- Total Life Forever · 2010
Albums
- 2022
- 2015
- 2013
- 2010
- 2008
Artist Playlists
- From math rock to sparkling pop; fire up the Oxford's quartet.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Live Albums
Compilations
- 2023
- 2020
- 2012
- Yannis joins Matt to talk new album 'Life Is Yours.'
- Yannis joins Matt to talk about the band's LP, Life Is Yours.
- Foals on “Crest of the Wave," plus Dan + Shay join live.
- Yannis joins Matt to talk new music.
- Matt and guests talk about their essential winter songs.
- The Chicago MC is Added, Nardeydey is Breaking.
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About Foals
Foals make expansive indie rock built on dense arrangements of danceable rhythms and punchy guitars. Formed in Oxford in the mid-2000s, the band emerged in the wake of the breakup of frontman Yannis Philippakis and percussionist Jack Bevan’s math-rock group, The Edmund Fitzgerald. Early singles, like 2007’s “Mathletics”, have a notably dance-punk bent—a reaction to the more serious sounds heard in Oxford during that era. Early attention led the band to record their debut LP, 2008’s high-energy Antidotes, with TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Their follow-up, 2010’s Total Life Forever, took inspiration from futurist Ray Kurzweil’s theories and had a far mellower vibe, as illustrated by the lush atmospheres of “Spanish Sahara”. Since then, they’ve dabbled in heavier alt-rock (2015’s What Went Down), made a sprawling two-part record (2019’s Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost) and even crafted a dub version of one of their albums (2023’s Life Is Dub), retaining a spirit of boundary-pushing experimentation under the indie-rock umbrella.
- ORIGIN
- Oxford, England
- FORMED
- 2005
- GENRE
- Alternative