FOALS return with a new album Holy Fire on Feb 11th 2013
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Press Release
With two top 10 albums already under their belt, Oxford five-piece Foals prepare to return with their third and most exhilarating album yet. The new album is titled ‘Holy Fire’ and is due for UK release Feb 11th 2013.
Holy Fire has been recorded by prestigious production duo Flood & Moulder at Assault and Battery studios in London. Their previous work includes Smashing Pumpkins, PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails, and The Killers.
The first track to be showcased is ‘Inhaler’ – an electrifying, shamanistic tune set to purge the soul and raise the dead. Heavier than anything Foals have written before it nevertheless shines with their inimitable groove and funk. Inhaler will go to radio on 5th November, and will be instantly available to download when the album goes up to pre-order on iTunes.
Despite no-one hearing any other music to date, the band assure the new record sounds ‘dirtier, swampier, and more booty shaking’ than the last.
Foals were nominated for a Mercury nomination with ‘Total Life Forever’. At the 2011 NME awards in they won ‘Best Single’ for Spanish Sahara and were nominated for four other awards. They were also nominated for ‘Best Song’ for Spanish Sahara at the 2011 Ivor Novello awards .
Kicking off proceedings the band prepare for a sold out, intimate, regional tour -- a tour especially for fans. The band will be debuting new material from their much anticipated new album.
Nov 28th Sheffield, Queen Social Club
Nov 29th Leicester, Lock 29
Nov 30th Stoke, Sugarmill
Dec 2nd Doncaster, Leopard
Dec 3rd Derby, The Venue
Dec 4th Gloucester, Guildhall
Dec 6th Southampton, Cellar
Dec 7th Bournemouth, 60 Million Lights
Dec 8th Aldershot, West End Centre
Dec 10th Brighton, Concorde 2
Dec 11th Forum, Tunbridge Wells
Foals are:
Yannis Philippakis – 26 (vocals/guitar)
Edwin Congreave – 28 (keys)
Walter Gervers - 28 (bass)
Jimmy Smith - 28 (guitar/keys)
Jack Bevan - 26 (drums)
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Press releases are so horrible:
a) "electrifying, shamanistic tune set to purge the soul and raise the dead" means nothing
b) "a tour especially for fans" means only a tiiiiiny number of people can go (do no Foals fans live in London??)
c) that they have to list the band's ages ("We're still young, don't worry!") is crappy
The Westy!
I will not be going.
Neither me
I shouldn't wonder. Do Foals have fans in Aldershot?
No idea, when I used to go to the Westy it was back in the halcyon days of MMISL
These days... kids are probably all into brostep?
Yannis is *26*?
seriously? I had him down for 30-odd.
yeah, no way
unless he was 18 when I saw the Ed Fitz around 2004...
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The Ed Fitz were super-young tho
actually, yeah, I've just had this confirmed to me from someone who would know
(I was only 19 then, I was just still in that phase of assuming people in Good Bands were older than me. weep.)
Ah
the complete ed fitz would be much more exciting than a new foals album. Sigh.
Was this not actually supposed to be happening at some point?
yep
but i think the label that was planning on doing it called it a day. They didnt even manage the wished for digital collection.
Someone must still own the rights to the songs though.
Shall we start a petition?
i heard that there was a whole lot of unreleased ed fitz stuff
that they were considering releasing. then foals blew up, and its been shelved :(
they were about 16/17/18 when they were playing gigs as well. its ridiculous when you think about it considering how amazing they were.
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/756/sadyannis.jpg
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Hope it's not boring like the last one.
i actually really liked the 2nd one. the first half anyway
fairly excited
me too!
'Spanish Sahara' will go down as one of the songs of the decade, I reckon.
oh come on
couldnt agree more.
the first half is fcking wonderful. genuinely one of the only records to shock me by being so good of recent years.
after spanish sahara it dips horribly though.
Much much better than the first
good news
Really looking forward to this.
Antidotes was appalling
Total Life Forever was wonderful. Looking forward to it.
Total life was ace
Can't wait