Foals

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Foals
Foals at Rock im Park, 2016.
Foals at Rock im Park , 2016.
General information
Genre (s) Indie rock , math rock
founding 2005
Website www.wearefoals.com
Current occupation
Yannis Philippakis
Jack Bevan
Guitar, keyboard
Jimmy Smith
Keyboard, saxophone
Edwin Congreave
former members
Vocals, guitar
 Andrew Mears
Walter Gervers

Foals ( . Engl . Pl for foals ) is an indie - and math-rock - band from Oxford , England . Her music style is primarily shaped by math rock, but is also considered to be influenced by techno and minimal .

The first album Antidotes was released in March 2008. It was produced by Wendy Jane and Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio , although the band members mixed the album themselves. The band currently has a contract with Transgressive Records in Europe and Sub Pop in the USA .

history

The Foals were founded by Andrew Mears , the singer in the band Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies (now Youthmovies ). He was still involved in the debut single Try This on Your Piano / Look at My Furrows of Worry , but left the band after a few months to concentrate on the Youthmovies album Good Nature . The guitarist and keyboardist of the band Jimmy Smith first played together with Walter Gervers in the band Face Meets Grill, which broke up shortly before the founding of the Foals. After Edwin Congreave (keyboard, saxophone) and Yannis Philippakis (vocals, guitar) joined them, the line-up was complete. Bevan and Philippakis have been friends since childhood and played in the math rock band The Edmund Fitzgerald before joining the Foals . The band's first published songs were Mathletics , Hummer and Astronauts and All , but initially did not succeed.

The Foals' first album, Antidotes , was released on March 24th, 2008. In the same year a limited edition was released that featured songs like XXXXX , which were used as intros at concerts. The respective singles also included B-sides like Brazil Is Here , Unthink This , A Sketch for ESG and others. Later, when the single Red Socks Pugie was released , a nine-minute version of Glaciers appeared , which had previously only existed for two minutes .

Yannis Philippakis at Rock im Park 2016
Edwin Congreave at Rock im Park 2016

That same year, Yannis Phillipakis was involved in a fight at the 2008 Summercase Festival. The reason given was that the lead singer of the Sex Pistols against the Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke racist remarks have made, after which Phillipakis and the Kaiser Chiefs are said to have tried to settle the dispute arising, and were injured. However, the Foals were able to perform again and dedicated the song Cassius to the front man of the Sex Pistols.

In 2009 Foals played as the opening act for Bloc Party in London and at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. The song Olympic Airways was then the soundtrack of the computer game FIFA 09 , in the game Pro Evolution Soccer 11 the song Miami was represented. In 2015, the Foals were featured in two video games: FIFA 16 featured the song Mountain At My Gates from the album What Went Down , and the game Life Is Strange featured the title Spanish Sahara .

After the album Antidotes , songs like Spanish Sahara , Alabaster , Total Life Forever and O-Funk appeared . In August they started new recordings in the Svenska Gramofon studio in Gothenburg , Sweden . On May 7, 2010, the album Total Life Forever was finally released . In December 2011 they played as the opening act for Red Hot Chili Peppers .

On February 8, 2013, the third studio album Holy Fire was released. On August 28, 2015, the fourth studio album What Went Down was released .

On January 5, 2018, the band announced that bassist Walter Gervers would leave the band. At the same time it was announced that the fifth studio album was being worked on. On January 14, 2019, Foals announced via Twitter that two new albums should be released in 2019. Part one of the double album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost was released in March and took them to number 2 for the second time, part two was released in October and was the first of their albums to reach number 1 .

At the Brit Awards 2020 , the Foals were recognized as the best British band.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2008 Antidotes - - - UK3
gold
gold

(6 weeks)UK 		-
First published: March 24, 2008
2010 Total Life Forever DE48 (1 week)
DE 		- CH62 (1 week)
CH 		UK8th
gold
gold

(11 weeks)UK 		-
First published: May 10, 2010
2013 Holy Fire DE31 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT39 (1 week)
AT 		CH15 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK2
gold
gold

(32 weeks)UK 		US86 (1 week)
US
First published: February 11, 2013
2015 What went down DE26 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT36 (1 week)
AT 		CH9 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK3
gold
gold

(30 weeks)UK 		US58 (1 week)
US
First published: August 28, 2015
2019 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 DE15 (1 week)
DE 		AT27 (1 week)
AT 		CH15 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK2
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK 		US58 (1 week)
US
First published: March 8, 2019
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 DE23 (1 week)
DE 		AT34 (1 week)
AT 		CH21 (1 week)
CH 		UK1 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 18, 2019

Remix albums

  • 2020: Collected Reworks Vol. 1 (First published June 12, 2020)

Video albums

  • 2013: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (First released October 28, 2013)

EPs

  • 2007: Live at Liars Club (First released March 19, 2007)
  • 2008: iTunes Live: London Festival '08 (First released July 11, 2008)
  • 2008: Gold Gold Gold (first published September 9, 2008)
  • 2008: UK B-sides (first published in 2008)
  • 2010: iTunes Festival: London 2010 (first published July 8, 2010)
  • 2010: Metropolis Session (first published December 6, 2010)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
2007 Balloons
Antidotes 		UK39 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: December 10, 2007
2008 Cassius
Antidotes 		UK26 (8 weeks)
UK
First published: March 10, 2008
Red Socks Pugie
Antidotes 		UK89 (1 week)
UK
First published: June 9, 2008
2010 This Orient
Total Life Forever 		UK97 (1 week)
UK
First published: May 3, 2010
2012 My Number
Holy Fire 		UK23
platinum
platinum

(7 weeks)UK
First published: December 17, 2012
2015 Mountain at My Gates
What Went Down 		UK87
silver
silver

(2 weeks)UK
First published: July 21, 2015
2019 Exits
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 		UK70 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: January 21, 2019
In Degrees
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 		UK82 (1 week)
UK
First published: May 10, 2019
The Runner
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 		UK87 (1 week)
UK
First published: September 5, 2019
2020 Hypercolour UK77 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / provisional / 2020UK
Initial release: June 26th, 2020
with CamelPhat

More singles

  • 2006: Try This on Your Piano / Look at My Furrows of Worry
  • 2007: lobster
  • 2007: Mathletics
  • 2008: Olympic Airways
  • 2010: Spanish Sahara
  • 2010: Miami
  • 2010: Blue Blood
  • 2012: Inhaler
  • 2013: Late Night
  • 2013: Bad Habit
  • 2013: Out of the Woods
  • 2015: What Went Down
  • 2015: Give It All
  • 2016: Birch Tree
  • 2016: Rain
  • 2019: On the Luna
  • 2019: Sunday
  • 2019: Black Bull
  • 2019: Into the Surf
  • 2019: Like Lightning
  • 2020: Neptune

swell

  1. ↑ Scott Colothan: TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek to Produce Foals. In: Gigwise. Giant Digital, April 26, 2007, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  2. ^ Niall O'Keeffe: Interview: Foals - Foals Get on Their High Horse. (No longer available online.) In: The Stool Pigeon. Junko Partners Publishing, December 2, 2007, archived from the original on September 21, 2011 ; accessed on August 21, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Mike Diver: Foaling around: founders' foibles dissected. In: Drowned in Sound. Silentway, January 11, 2008, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Rosie Swash: John Lydon accused of racist attack on Kele Okereke. In: The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Ltd., July 21, 2008, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Foals announce two albums for 2019. In: musikepress.de. January 15, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  7. ↑ a b Music Sales Awards: UK

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