Foals headlining Citadel Festival 2017 (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis is apparently ready to start working on the band’s next album.
Two bags worth of flowers should set the mood according to his post on Instagram, on which he says he’s ‘off to write the next record’.
What Went Down of 2015 continued Foals’ gradual rise to the top of British rock through a series of well received, critically acclaimed records. “Calling albums ‘mature’ in the twenty first century only serves to dust them with an un-hip, unwanted cache, but ‘What Went Down’ is just that, an assured, collective major leap forward both in vision and momentum,” Live4ever declared.
“You sense by the end that for the first time ever, Foals are moving without any heed of friction, that whatever comes, this is a time they’ll recognise as one when they were in the subconscious grip of flow.”
“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.”