Foals were at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge yesterday (October 29th) to put their hyper-charged take on Florence & The Machine‘s ‘What Kind Of Man‘.
The band also aired their own ‘What Went Down‘ album title-track as they fulfilled a booking which had be to postponed in September along with a number of other live commitments as frontman Yannis Philippakis battled throat problems.
“Less of a gamble so much as a calculated risk, it bears all the hallmarks of a band at ease with itself and radiates an inner confidence – one which Foals collectively might be the first to admit they haven’t always felt in the past,” our ‘What Went Down’ review reads.
“Some of this unintentional hubris may stem from their highly self-critical frontman Yannis Phillipakis, some of it from producer James Ford, but within seconds of the titular opener’s monster riffs and act-of-god tempo kicking in, Kansas has indeed gone bye bye, the obtuse intricacies of the group’s previous work dissolved.”
