‘What Went Down‘, the title-track of Foals‘ fourth studio album, proved to be everything we could have expected and more from the constantly evolving band when it was unveiled last month.
Now, ‘Mountain At My Gates‘ has been premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show and can be heard via YouTube below.
“I’d recorded the beginning riff on my phone ages ago,” Yannis Philippakis has told NME. “At the beginning it had a baggy feel, but became less so with more work. The central image – ‘I see a mountain at my gates’ – was from me getting more interested in seeing what would come out lyrically where there wasn’t a pre-conceived idea.”
“Normally I write voraciously in books and journals, then harvest a lot of that for the record. This, though, came out instantaneously in the room.”
The album ‘What Went Down‘ is due out on August 28th and was recorded with prolific producer James Ford.
