I have just taken the time to properly check out this band that everyone is talking about, Foals. And I have to say, they are really impressive. Their guitars remind me of This Town Need Guns', and their videos are extremely bizarre but amusing. I just read their Wiki, and they definitely have some interesting facts about them:-Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio was the original producer of their album, but they discarded his final mix and remixed it themselves due to the "spacey" sound they disliked caused by heavy use of reverb (it works for TV on the Radio, probably not Foals).
-Jack Bevan (the drummer) is one of the models for the 2008 Burberry campaign. I was mainly interested by this because I have some Burberry advertisements stuck on my wall due to Patrick Wolf being in them, and have just noticed that Jack is in them too, I think. Actually, these Patrick ones are 2007, so maybe not.
-Yannis and Edwin left their English Language and Literature courses at Oxford University when the band signed to Transgressive.
-This isn't from Wiki but... they were tipped as 'Band of the Year' by NME for 2008.
Their debut album "Antidotes" comes out March 24th. You can buy an edition with a bonus disc that contains a couple of their older singles (plus their b-sides) and their old live EP, so I think I'll get that one as I haven't got any of their previous songs. Make sure you check them out, if it's the only thing you do today.
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