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Foals Return

• 2nd Mar 2010

Oxford quintet Foals' much anticipated second album Total Life Forever will be released on May 10th, preceded on May 3rd by debut single ‘This Orient’.

The song ‘Spanish Sahara’ aired on radio one for the first time this Monday evening, (March 1st).

Six minutes of arresting beauty, the song inhabits a still, dry space, with simple, understated guitar chords providing a strong and emotive melody. Yannis’s haunting vocals set a hazy, hallucinatory soundscape, climaxing into a rush of shimmering guitars and keys.

I’m the fury in your head, I’m the fury in your bed, I’m the ghost in the back of your head.

The band also announced today that they will play an intimate UK tour in April/May:
Thu 29th April Liverpool Kazimier
Fri 30th April Newcastle Uni
Sun 2nd May Glasgow ABC
Mon 3rd May Leeds Met Uni
Tues 4th May Manchester Ritz
Thurs 6th May Cambridge Junction
Fri 7th May Nottingham Trent Uni
Sat 8th May Bristol Anson Rooms
Mon 10th May London Electric Ballroom
Weds 12th May Oxford 02 Academy
Fri 14th May Dublin Ambassador

Tickets go on general sale at 9am on March 12th.

2008 saw the band rise to prominence – from the early days playing house parties up and down the country, to selling-out incendiary tours across the world, stand-out TV performances, and exhilarating festival appearances. Their debut album Antidotes entered the UK charts at no. 3, achieved gold status, and has attracted devoted fans across the globe.

Since then, Foals have returned to Oxford to reaffirm their roots. Living in the House of Supreme Mathematics, they built a primitive studio and rehearsal space in its basement, and immersed themselves in communal rituals. Sharing the space with like-minded musicians and artists, a tribal enterprise developed, one focused above all on making new, exciting music.

Now they return with a powerful, definitve album: Total Life Forever.

'Spanish Sahara' was recorded in London, 2009, and the rest of the album in Gothenburg, Sweden, during late 2009, all by Luke Smith (Clor).

Foals are an articulate and independently-minded band, troubled but not torn, intent on choosing evolution over extinction.