“Collected Reworks Vol 1.”. Foals rework some of their back catalogue for the first in a series of compilations. Read our review here.
‘Collected Reworks Vol. I’ highlights an eclectic range of artists who have uncovered new angles to Foals’ discography.
The cameras have been rolling more or less non-stop for the past 18 months, from the creation of the band’s recent albums, all the way through to the ‘ENSWBL’ world tour.
FBC Transmissions’ is presented in a pirate radio-style aesthetic, evoking an ageless and transitory broadcast platform. Meanwhile the videos offer viewers a wealth of new and unseen material.
The special performance will see Foals headline a show at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 17th February. They will be joining a line-up that includes Bastille, Catfish and The Bottlemen, Bombay Bicycle Club, Sigrid, YUNGBLUD, Louis Tomlinson and more.
Born from a lurching, serrated guitar, ‘The Runner’ unfolds in surprising ways. The verses fuse that urgency and vigour with a haunting call-and-response dual vocal before the mesmeric hook soars to attention.
‘’They’ve never sounded better, and Yannis knows it, leaping into the audience and stomping across the bar like he owns the joint’’ BBC Online @ The Great Escape
“There’s a definite idea about the world being no longer habitable in the way that it was,” says Yannis. “A kind of perilousness lack of predictability and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the magnitudes of the problems we face. What’s the response? And what’s the purpose of any response that one individual can have?”