Foals - Spanish Sahara
Not really worth writing too much on this given they’ve already released it (YEAH – NICE ONE FOR RUINING MY FIRST LISTEN, FOALS!), but it’s probably worth saying, in the context of the album, ‘Spanish Sahara’ is both ‘Total Life Forever’’s slowest-burner and starkest opening and, in the jittery sonic-strobes of its second half take-off, probably the closest they come to replicating the math-rock mechanics of ‘Antidotes’. Yannis’ vocals, which, for the most part, are a desperate falsetto, bring the whole thing to a euphoric, surging climax.
Foals - This Orient
‘This Orient’ sees Foals flex their newly-found FM pop-hook muscles. Starting off with eastern-tinged synth bleeps, ‘This Orient’ soon erupts into a stompy Arcade Fire-sque singalong, its chorus chanting “It’s your heart that gives you this western feeling/Do you know, you give me this western feeling?” over and over, each chorus leaving a big fucking indelible mark on the brain. An adrenaline-veined, gloriously-executed pop song.
Not really worth writing too much on this given they’ve already released it (YEAH – NICE ONE FOR RUINING MY FIRST LISTEN, FOALS!), but it’s probably worth saying, in the context of the album, ‘Spanish Sahara’ is both ‘Total Life Forever’’s slowest-burner and starkest opening and, in the jittery sonic-strobes of its second half take-off, probably the closest they come to replicating the math-rock mechanics of ‘Antidotes’. Yannis’ vocals, which, for the most part, are a desperate falsetto, bring the whole thing to a euphoric, surging climax.
Foals - This Orient
‘This Orient’ sees Foals flex their newly-found FM pop-hook muscles. Starting off with eastern-tinged synth bleeps, ‘This Orient’ soon erupts into a stompy Arcade Fire-sque singalong, its chorus chanting “It’s your heart that gives you this western feeling/Do you know, you give me this western feeling?” over and over, each chorus leaving a big fucking indelible mark on the brain. An adrenaline-veined, gloriously-executed pop song.