Foals
Artist Type: Group
Group Formed:
2005
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Foals
Artist Biography
Foals are a band from Oxford, England formed in 2005. Combining poly-rhythmic tapping guitars, pulsing analogue synth, vocal melodies and chopping drum-lines, Foals create organic agitated dance-pop. The band are signed with Transgressive Records in Europe and Sub Pop in the USA. A full length album—entitled Antidotes—was released on 24 March 2008 in the UK, and 8 April in the USA.
Childhood friends Jack and Yannis were previously in a cult math rock band named The Edmund Fitzgerald but this was disbanded after they claimed that things had become "too serious" and they wanted to have more "fun making their music." Try Harder Records are set to release a double CD retrospective of all previously released and unreleased Edmund Fitzgerald material around September 2008. Foals was started as a reaction against the self-applauding high brow math pack in Oxford.
Smith is the only member of the band to have completed his degree—the other four members all quit their respective universities (including Yannis and Edwin leaving their courses in English language and literature at the University of Oxford) when the band signed to Transgressive.
Artist Discography
Albums
Antidotes (24 March 2008)
Antidotes: Tour Edition (10 November 2008)
EPs
Antidotes (24 March 2008)
Singles
Balloons (10 December 2007)
Cassius (10 March 2008)
Hummer (23 April 2007)
Mathletics (20 August 2007)
Try This on Your Piano (3 April 2006)