“Foals deliver an effervescent start to their new chapter with Life Is Yours”
“dance-rock party anthems shot through with Balearic bliss”
“What direction to take when your long-serving bassist and keyboard player both depart in quick succession and you don’t replace them? Not for indie stalwarts Foals the obvious path: their seventh LP is very clearly their disco album, where basslines are king, and the previously dominant guitars are submerged beneath wave after wave of keyboards and synths. It’s a bold move, and probably a smart on”
“Foals’ streamlined seventh album does away with their trickier instrumental interplay and subtler emotions, leaving nothing at all open to interpretation.”
“In some circles, ‘going pop’ is frowned upon. Elitist tendencies dictate that any swing away from the leftfield is to be punished. Most of the time this is complete nonsense, but every once in a while an album comes along that makes a strong case for the anoraks. Over the past decade, Foals have slowly but surely dismantled their sound, repurposing their chaotic math-rock for the scale of the mai”
