What links the minimalism of American composer Steve Reich, guitars that sound like insects and tennis player Andy Roddick? The answer is one word: Foals. The explanation is a bit more complicated.
Foals are a five-piece dance-punk band from Oxford who play a mix of Indie with elements from techno and math rock. The band are signed with Transgressive Records in Europe and Sub Pop Records in the USA. A full length album, entitled "Antidotes" is due for release around March 2008; it has been produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. However, the band discarded Sitek's final mix, opting to remix the entire record themselves, due to an undesired "spacey" sound as a result of heavy use of reverb.
Yannis was recently voted 45 in music magazine NMEs 2007 Cool List. Jack Bevan has recently been endorsed by SJC drums.
2008 is the year of The Foals!
