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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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Hummer
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Electric Bloom Remixes
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Mathletics
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Shoutbox
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a-r-i-t-a wrote:
Oh...my..god.. Foals are ORGASMIC! I am constantly listening to Antidotes and it's been over a year since I bought it. LOVE IT LOVE IT.
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icemonster wrote:
furthest thing from math rock
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Kate_with_crazy wrote:
мега мальчики))да ещще и симпотишные))В МОСКВУУУ!!!!!!!
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Mr_Mamoulian wrote:
awesome...
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KeyaOfBrixton wrote:
big biiiiiigg love§
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surpriselips wrote:
i kind of have a big crush on jack.
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_ritualord wrote:
[from their myspace's blog] "We have almost finished recording in Svenska Grammofon and will be heading back to start mixing next week". Be patient...
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fmeshtar wrote:
new album soon?
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SkalmanYeah wrote:
Is it possible to fall in love with a band? I don’t love Foals, I’m in love with them. Kind of cheesy but true...
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scxhnixx wrote:
Best band.
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DamarisDamaris wrote:
охать и ахать.
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neizvestniy wrote:
oh, yeah
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Lennoximus wrote:
THEY ARE **CKING AMAZING!! :3
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dimedude wrote:
no linkyaco, we do not 'dig'...
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randall_z wrote:
come to my home to play a private show
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Vladito123 wrote:
hummer....nice song
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sper12 wrote:
Antidotes has some seriously beautiful music - each listen gives more and more. Sorry linkyaco but I gotta disagree
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mavbeatz wrote:
FOALS.
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guilmsk wrote:
I got stoned watching the 'secre party' skins' episode. foals rulez on the party omfg *-*
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linkyaco wrote:
FOALS: wimpy vocals detract from a good musical texture--and that texture gets tedious, as it changes little, from song to song. Elsewhere I wrote a glowing review, but since then I've heard more and with these results herein. You dig?
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Events
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Dec
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Foals (DJ Set)
Club Control, Bucharest, Romania, Romania
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Bloc Party
Electric Factory, Philadelphia PA, United States
4 shouts
| 8 attendees
News
Australian disco ltd +
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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