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Oxford, England (2005 – present)
Foals are a band from Oxford, England formed in 2005. Combining poly-rhythmic tapping guitars, pulsing analogue synth, vocal melodies and chopping drum-lines, Foals create organic agitated dance-pop. The band are signed with Transgressive Records in Europe and Sub Pop in the USA. A full length album—entitled Antidotes—was released on 24 March 2008 in the UK, and 8 April in the USA.
Childhood friends Jack and Yannis were previously in a cult math rock band named The Edmund Fitzgerald but this was disbanded after they claimed that things had become “too serious” and they wanted to have more “fun making their music.” Try Harder Records are set to release a double CD retrospective of all previously released and unreleased Edmund Fitzgerald material around September 2008. Foals was started as a reaction against the self-applauding high brow math pack in Oxford.
Smith is the only member of the band to have completed his degree—the other four members all quit their respective universities (including Yannis and Edwin leaving their courses in English language and literature at the University of Oxford) when the band signed to Transgressive.
Lead singer of Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies (now Youthmovies), Andrew Mears, originally formed the band, playing as a guitarist and the lead singer. He was around for their first single release on Try Harder Records, “Try This on Your Piano/Look at My Furrows of Worry”, but left after several months so he could concentrate on Youthmovies’ forthcoming album Good Nature.
Childhood friends Jack and Yannis were previously in a cult math rock band named The Edmund Fitzgerald but this was disbanded after they claimed that things had become “too serious” and they wanted to have more “fun making their music.” Try Harder Records are set to release a double CD retrospective of all previously released and unreleased Edmund Fitzgerald material around September 2008. Foals was started as a reaction against the self-applauding high brow math pack in Oxford.
Smith is the only member of the band to have completed his degree—the other four members all quit their respective universities (including Yannis and Edwin leaving their courses in English language and literature at the University of Oxford) when the band signed to Transgressive.
Lead singer of Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies (now Youthmovies), Andrew Mears, originally formed the band, playing as a guitarist and the lead singer. He was around for their first single release on Try Harder Records, “Try This on Your Piano/Look at My Furrows of Worry”, but left after several months so he could concentrate on Youthmovies’ forthcoming album Good Nature.
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Antidotes
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Electric Bloom Remixes
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Shoutbox
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woah_oh wrote:
как быстро они набирают популярность, уже 8 млн прослушиваний :)
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siees wrote:
Can't wait for their next album and gigs! <32
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ShoKill wrote:
I've listened to the whole Antidotes hundreds of times on the metro to and from work. ♥
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michael_cgfear wrote:
и во Влад и в Тюмень, и в Сызрань и в Крыжопль и в Питер и на Камчатку :) ну и по деревням тур, начиная с Москвы :Р
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rhymeswpitynow wrote:
A) obsessed with the Foals. end of. B) new music you should check out: The Temper Trap from australia. Absolutely awesome :) http://www.last.fm/music/The%2520Temper%2520Trap?ac=temper%20trap
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Ooh_La_ wrote:
а лучше в Тюмень :D
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michael_cgfear wrote:
пора б новый альбом накатать уже... че за дела епт... и во Владик с концертом приехать... не далеко ж блин )
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diorlandmine wrote:
I am in love with them [2]
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Sokol_United wrote:
JoelyIsabel, i love you :))
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JoelyIsabel wrote:
i love Foals :)
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epic_discord wrote:
i dont think the new album will live up to the hype... its all been down hill since the 06 demos.
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SoraJrMD wrote:
Love them!
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thecheeks wrote:
FInally gave the whole album a listen, it's wonderful!
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BleedingBullets wrote:
I am in love with them
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plastfolie wrote:
Pugie: du är en påse (in English, it means that pugie is a urinaryinfection..)
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plastfolie wrote:
milogluth: I'm starting to really like you now, Christmas tree is the best in the world! thanks ....
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Liteee wrote:
sianii : Why would it be a disappointment???
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sianii wrote:
I think new album will be a dissapointment.
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Pugie wrote:
Sometime between januari and march.
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maritana15ukr wrote:
anyone knows when new album is coming out ???<3x
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Club Control, Bucharest, Romania, Romania
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News
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2 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/foals
Yes yes ay'a;llour brother Edwin (keyboards / misery pasta / dj extrordinaire ) has fled the studio. While we scour and scrape for sound and sanityhe will be sunning his balls down under and doing the. …
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