If you haven’t heard of Foals, where have you been the last seventeen years? We’re of course talking about the notoriously busy and successful British rock band. We caught up with guitarist Jimmy Smith about their seventh record, Life Is Yours, and why they’ve released their most feel-good album yet.
Foals haven’t taken a break until Covid literally forced them to. Now they’re back at it, on tour with their seventh studio album, Life Is Yours - an album born from everything the band missed during lockdown; good nights out and connecting with friends. While the new record has strayed from their heavier stuff, it’s track after track of euphoric escapism. A gift to lift our spirits after the shitty years we’ve all had.
Headlining The Other Stage at Glasto this year, the band opened their set with the single, Wake Me Up, a defiant disco anthem to shake us out of the slumber of the last couple of years. While 2am, their most poppy song yet, is an ode to life pre-Covid. Each song on the album drifts seamlessly into one another, made for long nights out with people you love.