HOLY FIRE
Foals
(Warner)
Like Talking Heads busting out a collection of Duran Duran covers and injecting that alt-cool shimmy to the Le Bon grand-pop swagger, My Number (the standout hit from these Oxford-born English indie kids’ third full-lengther) is a joyous invocation to the goddess of breakups.
But these Foals, who could have been forgiven for cantering along their glitchy, artsy track off the back of such critical acclaim, are in full gallop throughout the album with a huge, loud and artful collection which begs to be listened to over and over.
Frontman Yannis Philippakis’ vocals drift around a little but the shear punchiness of the beats and the eruptions of guitars (some of this album provides the loudest moments the band has yet come up with) make this Foals gold.
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