Foals
Alternative
The next Foals concert is scheduled for Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Club Chinois in Ibiza, Spain. See all 1 upcoming concerts
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About Foals
Hometown
Oxford, England
Formed
2005
Genre
Alternative
Foals make expansive indie rock built on dense arrangements of danceable rhythms and punchy guitars. Formed in Oxford, England in the mid-2000s, the band emerged in the wake of the breakup of frontman Yannis Philippakis and percussionist Jack Bevan’s math-rock group, The Edmund Fitzgerald. Early singles, like 2007’s “Mathletics,” have a notably dance-punk bent—a reaction to the more serious sounds heard in Oxford during that era. Early attention led the band to record their debut LP, 2008’s high-energy Antidotes, with TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Their follow-up, 2010’s Total Life Forever, took inspiration from futurist Ray Kurzweil’s theories and had a far mellower vibe, as illustrated by the lush atmospheres of “Spanish Sahara.” Since then, they’ve dabbled in heavier alt-rock (2015’s What Went Down), made a sprawling two-part record (2019’s Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost), and even crafted a dub version of one of their albums (2023’s Life Is Dub), retaining a spirit of boundary-pushing experimentation under the indie-rock umbrella.
Members of Foals include, or have included, Jack Bevan, Yannis Philippakis, Jimmy Smith and more.
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