We saw The Foals open for Band of Horses during CMJ at the Bowery Ballroom. Since then we’ve had on heavy rotation every song by The Foals that we downloaded off The Hype Machine. The band is described as dance-punk, kind of bordering on math rock — one of their songs is called “Mathletics.” We are not interested in debates about taxonomy here. The Foals sound a bit like Bloc Party (maybe it’s the English accents) and sort of like a beautiful alarm clock (if that’s possible).
The Foals only have four singles. Feast on this and you’ll be salivating for their impending album:
From Mathletics / Big Big Love Fig. 1:
“Big Big Love Fig.1″
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