Foals take a fresh, thrilling new direction on with their upcoming album ‘Life Is Yours’, which will be released on June 17.
‘Life Is Yours’ is the follow-up to the triumphant, two-part ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’, which proved to be a pivotal pinnacle in the band’s story. Not only did it result in the band’s first ever UK #1 album, but the ambitious scale of the Mercury-nominated album saw Foals win their first BRIT Award for Best Group.
‘Life Is Yours’ feels like a natural evolution for Foals, its
disco-tinged guitars, tight syncopated rhythms and punchy, insistent hooks
echoing their roots as purveyors of rambunctious house
party chaos. Thematically, it’s escapist, transportive and in rapture at
life’s endless possibilities. It’s a record that’s perfectly in tune
with the prevailing atmosphere of this moment in time – a life-affirming
celebration as the world is reunited.
‘Life Is Yours’ immediately establishes its tone with the bright beam of
optimism provided by its title track, its ambience and exuberance showing no
sign of slowing down as it is followed by the two recent singles. There’s a
unity to the sound, whether Foals are bouncing into the Balearic beats
of ‘Looking High’, experimenting with West African guitar grooves
on ‘Flutter’, or simply savouring the prospect of playing live together
again within the dance dynamics of ‘The Sound’. It’s also a consistently
transportive experience, at times conjuring images of
the Pacific Northwest or St. Lucia, at others directly set in the peppy
nostalgia of the recent past. It all comes full circle with ‘Wild Green’,
which simultaneously celebrates the rebirth of summer with an existential tinge
that all beautiful moments are inevitably fleeting.