“Foals always had chops and conviction to spare, just not always the best grip on how to share it. 2008's Antidotes was a prickly affair of Afro-pop guitars being shaped into math-rock structure, which was fortunately smoothed on 2010's Total Life Forever, where the band began to discover a knack for U2-like grandeur. You might expect them to continue that path on a record called, of all things, Ho”
