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Foals - Spanish Sahara

I would of thought 3 years ago when I past down the opportunity to see Foals live in HMV on the release date of Antidotes that three years later they would bring out a track that has made my year!



This song wasn’t anything like what I were expecting from Foals, it was a very pleasant surprise actually. It was really laid back and started off like The xx in a way that was quite mellow and soft, before moving into something similar. To be honest with you, it’s more of a slow-dance number, something that would come on at the school dance and you’d all partner off with the girl you fancied or something, it’s not something you’d expect to be played in a club unless there was a great remix, but then again, it probably wasn’t written with a club in mind.

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Foals - Spanish Sahara
Not really worth writing too much on this given they’ve already released it (YEAH – NICE ONE FOR RUINING MY FIRST LISTEN, FOALS!), but it’s probably worth saying, in the context of the album, ‘Spanish Sahara’ is both ‘Total Life Forever’’s slowest-burner and starkest opening and, in the jittery sonic-strobes of its second half take-off, probably the closest they come to replicating the math-rock mechanics of ‘Antidotes’. Yannis’ vocals, which, for the most part, are a desperate falsetto, bring the whole thing to a euphoric, surging climax.

Foals - This Orient
‘This Orient’ sees Foals flex their newly-found FM pop-hook muscles. Starting off with eastern-tinged synth bleeps, ‘This Orient’ soon erupts into a stompy Arcade Fire-sque singalong, its chorus chanting “It’s your heart that gives you this western feeling/Do you know, you give me this western feeling?” over and over, each chorus leaving a big fucking indelible mark on the brain. An adrenaline-veined, gloriously-executed pop song.