Foals’ Yannis Philippakis performing at Wembley Arena, Feb 2016 (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis is thinking ahead to the band’s next record.
And although they are expected to take a break before recording a fifth album, Yannis has told Q magazine whenever that time comes around he will challenge the band to ‘rock the boat’.
“I want us to break the chains of familiarity and to have that question mark in the room again,” he said (via NME). “I think that it’ll be beneficial for the band just to be nervous about being in the room together again. I think we need to rock our own boat.”
Foals have built a lasting impression since the remarkable leap forward of 2010’s ‘Total Life Forever‘, gaining further ground last year with ‘What Went Down‘.
“What happens when the cocktail of adrenaline and magic fades defies prediction, but for now there is absolutely no call to do anything other than listen and thrill to a group brave enough to re-orient stadium rock to a plain all of their own making,” our review concluded.