Dollars To Pounds: Foals Like Makin Love!
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First off, I see the Fader Eds have taken the puns off my column headers. [Ed: What are you talking about?] This is a fair call. Initially they were meant to illustrate us limey’s fondness for crap puns (for instance, say there is a pap photo of Robert De Niro looking a bit chubby on the beach, the tabloid headline will read You Porkin To Me?—never fails to amuse, our brains are just wired that way) but of late they were becoming so lame that even I was flinching as I emailed the copy over. More importantly I’ve been listening to that stirring Foals album a lot recently and while we’re all excited about the Afrobeat trumpets and the fact that they had the temerity to record it all in Dave Sitek’s studio and then sneak the tapes back to London to remix it themselves, I wanted to know what Yannis was on about in the lyrics about tennis and aviaries. So I phoned him up.
Video: Foals, “Cassius”
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If you read the ads in Vanity Fair as much as we do, you may have noticed in the current Hollywood Issue an upfront Burberry spread starring New York ubiquitess Agyness Deyn jumping around with a bunch of sort of famous British kids including Foals drummer Jack Bevan. There were some pages with words that came after that but we don’t much remember them. Go here to watch a Burberry video of what we’re talking about, OR watch the new Foals video which is actually really good.
Video: Foals, “Balloons”
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“Balloons” is the first single off the Foals upcoming David Sitek-produced album and it’s easy to hear the effect he’s had on them since the super-mathy Mathletics. More bombast, more saxophone, less twitching. Good things in this case. “Balloons” will be released as a single on December 3rd with some fancily illustrated covers and a Four Tet remix.
