Foals (band)
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Foals are an English
indie rock
band from Oxford
. They are currently signed to Transgressive Records
in the UK and Sub Pop
in the US. They released their debut album Antidotes
on 24 March 2008 in the UK, and 8 April 2008 in the US. The band's second album, Total Life Forever
, was released on the 10 May 2010 and was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize
.
band The Edmund Fitzgerald
, which did not gain much media interest. The group was disbanded after they claimed that things had become "too serious" and they wanted to have more "fun making their music".
Walter and Jimmy were part of a small Oxford band called Face Meets Grill. They met at and were formed from members of Abingdon Boys School. They played gigs in and around Oxford and recording a debut EP in Hull. After playing Truck Festival
in 2004 they separated to follow different paths and careers.
Guitarist Jimmy Smith is the only one of the band members to have completed his degree, at Hull University: each of the band members quit their respective universities including Yannis and Edwin leaving their English courses at Oxford University, when the band signed to Transgressive Records
by Ben Mackereth.
The lead singer of Youthmovies
, Andrew Mears, originally formed the band Foals, playing as guitarist and lead vocalist. He was present on the band's debut 7" single "Try This On Your Piano/Look At My Furrows Of Worry", but left shortly afterwards to concentrate on Youthmovies
' debut album Good Nature
.
The band likes to be self-sufficient, so all of the music videos are created by their friend Dave Ma and all of the artwork (excluding cover art of Total Life Forever) is also done by their friend Tinhead.
The band’s musical influences are varied, with the band members citing minimal techno, Arthur Russell, the Irish based math rock band The Redneck Manifesto
, Krautrock bands such as Harmonia
, and Talking Heads
as well For London (previously known as The Jester People) as their main sources of inspiration. Their musical style however can be more directly linked to various genres such as indie rock
, dance-punk
, post-punk
and techno
.
In early 2007, the band released the limited edition 7" singles Hummer
and Mathletics
, both produced by Gareth Parton. "Hummer" later featured on the Channel Four teen drama Skins
.
. However, the band decided to mix the album themselves, stating that Sitek made the first master copy of the album sound like "it was recorded in the Grand Canyon". Yannis has stated multiple times during various interviews that Foals and Dave Sitek are on good terms, even though the copy by Sitek was rejected by the band. Foals released their debut album, entitled Antidotes, on 24 March 2008 in the UK and 8 April 2008 in the USA. The album was a commercial success in the United Kingdom, debuting at #3 in the UK Albums Charts. The album was a minor success in other countries, charting in Japan, France and the Netherlands. Non-UK versions of the album include the early Parton produced singles.
, has been described by the band members as sounding like "tropical prog" and "like the dream of an eagle dying". The band have described the album as being "a lot less funk" than they had originally planned. The album was produced by Luke Smith, formerly of Clor
. The album's title is named after an element of Ray Kurzweil's theory of singularity
. The band's frontman Yannis Philippakis
has stated a long time interest in futurology
with it informing numerous songs on Total Life Forever
.
On March 1, 2010, the promotional single "Spanish Sahara
" was first played on Zane Lowe
's show Radio 1. Foals' new website was updated that night with the release of a video for the track directed by longtime collaborator Dave Ma. On March 6, the Total Life Forever site was officially launched. Puzzles revealed images, lyrics and sound clips of songs from the album, which was all set up by Yannis' close friend Gary Gunn. The last clip appeared on March 12, and resulted with a password entry for the Foals' new website. The site was opened on March 13 and presented the whole new art concept and media including samples of songs, photos and videos. Lead single "This Orient" was released on May 3, 2010. The album was finally released on May 10, 2010.
"Spanish Sahara
" was featured in trailers for Entourage
's seventh season, season four of Skins
, and BBC One
's Outcasts
. It was also used in the soundtrack of the second season of the E4 drama Misfits
. It was released as a full physical single in September 2010, featuring an edited remix starring the strings of London Contemporary Orchestra
.
The album was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize
. In an interview with online magazine Coup De Main, Jimmy Smith said how the band members live together on and off the road - heading to Australia to record demos for their next album together. "It's just like touring with your family, it's nice".
Former members
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|"Mathletics
"
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|"Balloons
"
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|rowspan="3"|2008
|"Cassius"
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|"Red Socks Pugie"
|align="center"|89
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|"Olympic Airways
"
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|rowspan="5"|2010
|"Spanish Sahara
"
|align="center"|148
|align="center" rowspan="5"|Total Life Forever
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|"This Orient
"
|align="center"|97
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|"Miami
"
|align="center"|127
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|"Spanish Sahara" (re-release
)
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|"Blue Blood"
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Notes: - The singles were originally released without an album, but were later added as bonus tracks for the album "Antidotes
".
was nominated for the Mercury Prize
in July 2010, losing to xx
on September 7 that year. The album was tested again the following year for best album in addition to a nomination for best cover artwork by the NME Awards
. The single "Spanish Sahara
" was nominated by the same group for best track on top of being named all-around best band and live act. In July, the MOJO
honour awards also nominated Foals alongside Canadian band Arcade Fire for the caliber of their live performances.
Mercury Prize
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| 2010
| Total Life Forever
| Best album
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NME Awards
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2011
| Foals
| Best British band
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| Foals
| Best live act
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| Total Life Forever
| Best British album
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| Total Life Forever
| Best artwork
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| "Spanish Sahara"
| Best track
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|}
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
band from Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
. They are currently signed to Transgressive Records
Transgressive Records
Transgressive Records is an independent record label based in London, England formed in 2004. Founders Tim Dellow, and Toby L first met at a Bloc Party gig organised by Toby's rockfeedback website. The first release on the label was 1am by The Subways, released in September 2004...
in the UK and Sub Pop
Sub Pop
Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...
in the US. They released their debut album Antidotes
Antidotes (album)
- Chart positions :...
on 24 March 2008 in the UK, and 8 April 2008 in the US. The band's second album, Total Life Forever
Total Life Forever
Total Life Forever is the second studio album by British indie rock band Foals, released on 10 May 2010 through Transgressive Records. Prior to the album's release, the band described it as souding "like the dream of an eagle dying". It was produced by Luke Smith, and was recorded at Svenska...
, was released on the 10 May 2010 and was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize
Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...
.
Early History
Jack Bevan, Eilish May and Yannis Philippakis were originally in cult math rockMath rock
Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s and that was very influenced by progressive rock like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage...
band The Edmund Fitzgerald
The Edmund Fitzgerald (band)
The Edmund Fitzgerald were a math rock band from Oxford, England, who disbanded in 2005. Their final line-up consisted of Yannis Philippakis on lead guitar and vocals, Lina Simon on rhythm guitar, and Jack Bevan on drums...
, which did not gain much media interest. The group was disbanded after they claimed that things had become "too serious" and they wanted to have more "fun making their music".
Walter and Jimmy were part of a small Oxford band called Face Meets Grill. They met at and were formed from members of Abingdon Boys School. They played gigs in and around Oxford and recording a debut EP in Hull. After playing Truck Festival
Truck Festival
Truck Festival is an annual independent music festival in Oxfordshire, England. It was started in 1998 by the Bennett family , who decided that mainstream festivals such as Glastonbury had become too commercial and predictable. It is held in July at Hill Farm in Steventon, near Abingdon...
in 2004 they separated to follow different paths and careers.
Guitarist Jimmy Smith is the only one of the band members to have completed his degree, at Hull University: each of the band members quit their respective universities including Yannis and Edwin leaving their English courses at Oxford University, when the band signed to Transgressive Records
Transgressive Records
Transgressive Records is an independent record label based in London, England formed in 2004. Founders Tim Dellow, and Toby L first met at a Bloc Party gig organised by Toby's rockfeedback website. The first release on the label was 1am by The Subways, released in September 2004...
by Ben Mackereth.
The lead singer of Youthmovies
Youthmovies
Youthmovies were an English rock quintet, comprising Andrew Mears , Al English , Graeme Murray , Stephen Hammond and Sam Scott...
, Andrew Mears, originally formed the band Foals, playing as guitarist and lead vocalist. He was present on the band's debut 7" single "Try This On Your Piano/Look At My Furrows Of Worry", but left shortly afterwards to concentrate on Youthmovies
Youthmovies
Youthmovies were an English rock quintet, comprising Andrew Mears , Al English , Graeme Murray , Stephen Hammond and Sam Scott...
' debut album Good Nature
Good Nature
Good Nature is the sole album from Oxford based post-rock band Youthmovies. It was released on 17 March, 2008, on Drowned in Sound.-Track listing:# "Magdalen Bridge"# "The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor"# "Soandso and Soandso"...
.
The band likes to be self-sufficient, so all of the music videos are created by their friend Dave Ma and all of the artwork (excluding cover art of Total Life Forever) is also done by their friend Tinhead.
The band’s musical influences are varied, with the band members citing minimal techno, Arthur Russell, the Irish based math rock band The Redneck Manifesto
The Redneck Manifesto
The Redneck Manifesto has two different meanings.* The Redneck Manifesto is a book written by American author and publisher Jim Goad* The Redneck Manifesto are an instrumental rock band based in Dublin, Ireland, formed in 1998...
, Krautrock bands such as Harmonia
Harmonia (band)
Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster and later included the British musician Brian Eno.-Musical style:...
, and Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
as well For London (previously known as The Jester People) as their main sources of inspiration. Their musical style however can be more directly linked to various genres such as indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
, dance-punk
Dance-punk
Dance-punk is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and No Wave movements.-Predecessors:...
, post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
and techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
.
In early 2007, the band released the limited edition 7" singles Hummer
Hummer (Foals song)
"Hummer" is the second single by Foals, and is the first single with Yannis Philippakis on lead vocals . It was recorded and mixed by producer Gareth Parton at The Fortress and Metropolis recording studios, London. It was released as a digital download and on vinyl on April 23, 2007...
and Mathletics
Mathletics
"Mathletics" is the third single by Foals. It peaked at number 109 on the UK singles chart. It was released as a digital download and on vinyl on 20 August 2007. It was recorded and mixed by producer Gareth Parton at The Fortress and Strongroom recording studios. The song was used in promotional...
, both produced by Gareth Parton. "Hummer" later featured on the Channel Four teen drama Skins
Skins (TV series)
Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...
.
Antidotes
In the summer of 2007 Foals began working on their debut album in New York. It was produced by Dave Sitek of TV On The RadioTV on the Radio
TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music....
. However, the band decided to mix the album themselves, stating that Sitek made the first master copy of the album sound like "it was recorded in the Grand Canyon". Yannis has stated multiple times during various interviews that Foals and Dave Sitek are on good terms, even though the copy by Sitek was rejected by the band. Foals released their debut album, entitled Antidotes, on 24 March 2008 in the UK and 8 April 2008 in the USA. The album was a commercial success in the United Kingdom, debuting at #3 in the UK Albums Charts. The album was a minor success in other countries, charting in Japan, France and the Netherlands. Non-UK versions of the album include the early Parton produced singles.
Total Life Forever
In August 2009, Foals started recording their album at Svenska Grammofon Studion in Gothenburg, Sweden. The band's second album, Total Life ForeverTotal Life Forever
Total Life Forever is the second studio album by British indie rock band Foals, released on 10 May 2010 through Transgressive Records. Prior to the album's release, the band described it as souding "like the dream of an eagle dying". It was produced by Luke Smith, and was recorded at Svenska...
, has been described by the band members as sounding like "tropical prog" and "like the dream of an eagle dying". The band have described the album as being "a lot less funk" than they had originally planned. The album was produced by Luke Smith, formerly of Clor
Clor
Clor were a short-lived five-piece band from Brixton, England, formed in 2003. In the UK they were signed to Parlophone. Their music is angular in melody and jerky in rhythm, and is often compared to Devo and Gary Numan. Their breakthrough came with the release of their self-titled first album,...
. The album's title is named after an element of Ray Kurzweil's theory of singularity
Technological singularity
Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human intelligence through technological means. Since the capabilities of such an intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as...
. The band's frontman Yannis Philippakis
Yannis Philippakis
Yannis Philippakis is a singer of the alternative indie and dance punk band Foals. He is of Greek and South African Jewish descent. He left Greece with his mother when he was five years old. His father taught him to dance the folk traditional songs and sing...
has stated a long time interest in futurology
Futurology
Futures studies is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of...
with it informing numerous songs on Total Life Forever
Total Life Forever
Total Life Forever is the second studio album by British indie rock band Foals, released on 10 May 2010 through Transgressive Records. Prior to the album's release, the band described it as souding "like the dream of an eagle dying". It was produced by Luke Smith, and was recorded at Svenska...
.
On March 1, 2010, the promotional single "Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara (song)
"Spanish Sahara" is the first song released from Foals' second album Total Life Forever. Although not an official single, it was the first song to be released from this album. It was premiered on 1 March 2010, on BBC Radio 1. Later that night, a music video for the single was put up on the...
" was first played on Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England...
's show Radio 1. Foals' new website was updated that night with the release of a video for the track directed by longtime collaborator Dave Ma. On March 6, the Total Life Forever site was officially launched. Puzzles revealed images, lyrics and sound clips of songs from the album, which was all set up by Yannis' close friend Gary Gunn. The last clip appeared on March 12, and resulted with a password entry for the Foals' new website. The site was opened on March 13 and presented the whole new art concept and media including samples of songs, photos and videos. Lead single "This Orient" was released on May 3, 2010. The album was finally released on May 10, 2010.
"Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled as a territory by Spain between 1884 and 1975...
" was featured in trailers for Entourage
Entourage (TV series)
Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
's seventh season, season four of Skins
Skins (TV series)
Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...
, and BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
's Outcasts
Outcasts (TV series)
Outcasts is an eight-part 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD.-Plot:...
. It was also used in the soundtrack of the second season of the E4 drama Misfits
Misfits (TV series)
Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The first series started broadcasting on 12 November 2009 on E4, and was...
. It was released as a full physical single in September 2010, featuring an edited remix starring the strings of London Contemporary Orchestra
London Contemporary Orchestra
The London Contemporary Orchestra is an ensemble of young musicians formed in 2008 whose stated aim is "to explore and promote new music to an increasingly wide audience". LCO staged its inaugural season at LSO St Luke's and has since performed at venues and festivals including The Roundhouse,...
.
The album was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize
Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...
. In an interview with online magazine Coup De Main, Jimmy Smith said how the band members live together on and off the road - heading to Australia to record demos for their next album together. "It's just like touring with your family, it's nice".
Members
- Yannis PhilippakisYannis PhilippakisYannis Philippakis is a singer of the alternative indie and dance punk band Foals. He is of Greek and South African Jewish descent. He left Greece with his mother when he was five years old. His father taught him to dance the folk traditional songs and sing...
- Vocals, Guitar, Live Drums - Jack BevanJack BevanJack Bevan is the drummer of the alternative indie band from Oxford, Foals. Before forming with foals, he played in The Edmund Fitzgerald, which did not gain much media interest...
- Drums - Jimmy Smith - Guitar
- Edwin Congreave - Keyboard, Backing Vocals
- Walter Gervers - Bass, Backing Vocals
Former members
- Andrew Mears - Vocals, Guitar
Studio Albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
IRL Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically... |
AUS | NZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
FRA Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... |
US Heat. Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical... |
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| 2008 | Antidotes Antidotes (album) - Chart positions :...
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3 | 20 | – | 99 | 84 | 28 |
British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : Gold |
| 2010 | Total Life Forever Total Life Forever Total Life Forever is the second studio album by British indie rock band Foals, released on 10 May 2010 through Transgressive Records. Prior to the album's release, the band described it as souding "like the dream of an eagle dying". It was produced by Luke Smith, and was recorded at Svenska... Transgressive Records Transgressive Records is an independent record label based in London, England formed in 2004. Founders Tim Dellow, and Toby L first met at a Bloc Party gig organised by Toby's rockfeedback website. The first release on the label was 1am by The Subways, released in September 2004... Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Digital Download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... , Vinyl LP |
8 | 25 | 79 | – | 38 | 30 |
|
EPs
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 2007 | Live At Liars Club
|
| 2008 | iTunes Live: London Festival '08
Transgressive Records Transgressive Records is an independent record label based in London, England formed in 2004. Founders Tim Dellow, and Toby L first met at a Bloc Party gig organised by Toby's rockfeedback website. The first release on the label was 1am by The Subways, released in September 2004... , Warner Bros Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
| 2008 | Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold -Track listing:# "Olympic Airways " – 3:59# "Dearth" – 3:04# "Gold Gold Gold" – 5:50# "Titan Arum" – 5:11# "Red Socks Pugie " – 7:09# "Cassius " – 11:01... Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
| 2008 | UK B-sides UK B-sides UK B-sides is a promotional CD-R that was given away with pre-orders for Antidotes direct from Sub Pop Records.-Track listing:# "Dearth" – 3:04# "A Song For You" – 4:09# "The Chronic" – 5:00... Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
| 2010 | iTunes Festival: London 2010
Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
| 2010 | Metropolis Session
Transgressive Records Transgressive Records is an independent record label based in London, England formed in 2004. Founders Tim Dellow, and Toby L first met at a Bloc Party gig organised by Toby's rockfeedback website. The first release on the label was 1am by The Subways, released in September 2004... , Warner Bros |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 2006 | "Try This On Your Piano/Look At My Furrows of Worry" | – | Non-album single |
| 2007 |
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|"Mathletics
Mathletics
"Mathletics" is the third single by Foals. It peaked at number 109 on the UK singles chart. It was released as a digital download and on vinyl on 20 August 2007. It was recorded and mixed by producer Gareth Parton at The Fortress and Strongroom recording studios. The song was used in promotional...
"
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|"Balloons
Balloons (Foals song)
"Balloons" is the first single from the album Antidotes by Foals. It is their fourth single in total to date. It was released as a digital download on 9 December 2007 and on CD and vinyl the following day....
"
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|align="center" rowspan="4"|Antidotes
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|rowspan="3"|2008
|"Cassius"
|align="center"|26
|-
|"Red Socks Pugie"
|align="center"|89
|-
|"Olympic Airways
Olympic Airways (Foals song)
"Olympic Airways" is the fourth and last single from the album Antidotes by Foals. It is their seventh single in total to date. It was released as a digital download, CD and vinyl on 6 October 2008....
"
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|rowspan="5"|2010
|"Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara (song)
"Spanish Sahara" is the first song released from Foals' second album Total Life Forever. Although not an official single, it was the first song to be released from this album. It was premiered on 1 March 2010, on BBC Radio 1. Later that night, a music video for the single was put up on the...
"
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|align="center" rowspan="5"|Total Life Forever
|-
|"This Orient
This Orient
"This Orient" is a song by English indie rock band Foals. It was released as the lead single from the band's second album, Total Life Forever...
"
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|-
|"Miami
Miami (Foals song)
"Miami" is the second single from Foals' second album Total Life Forever, released on 5 July 2010. The b-side "Wear & Tear" was later made available for download on the Foals' website...
"
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|-
|"Spanish Sahara" (re-release
Reissue
A reissue is the repeated issue of a published work. In common usage, it refers to an album which has been released at least once before and is released again, sometimes with alterations or additions....
)
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|"Blue Blood"
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Notes: - The singles were originally released without an album, but were later added as bonus tracks for the album "Antidotes
Antidotes (album)
- Chart positions :...
".
Recognition
Total Life ForeverTotal Life Forever
Total Life Forever is the second studio album by British indie rock band Foals, released on 10 May 2010 through Transgressive Records. Prior to the album's release, the band described it as souding "like the dream of an eagle dying". It was produced by Luke Smith, and was recorded at Svenska...
was nominated for the Mercury Prize
Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...
in July 2010, losing to xx
Xx (album)
xx is the debut studio album by English indie pop group The xx, released on 17 August 2009 by Young Turks. The self-produced album was recorded at XL Studios in West London between December 2008 and April 2009. The album was awarded the 2010 Mercury Prize...
on September 7 that year. The album was tested again the following year for best album in addition to a nomination for best cover artwork by the NME Awards
NME Awards
The NME Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine, NME .The first awards show was held in 1953 as the NME Poll Winners Concerts, shortly after the founding of the magazine....
. The single "Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara (song)
"Spanish Sahara" is the first song released from Foals' second album Total Life Forever. Although not an official single, it was the first song to be released from this album. It was premiered on 1 March 2010, on BBC Radio 1. Later that night, a music video for the single was put up on the...
" was nominated by the same group for best track on top of being named all-around best band and live act. In July, the MOJO
Mojo (magazine)
MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...
honour awards also nominated Foals alongside Canadian band Arcade Fire for the caliber of their live performances.
Mercury Prize
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| 2010
| Total Life Forever
| Best album
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NME Awards
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2011
| Foals
| Best British band
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| Foals
| Best live act
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| Total Life Forever
| Best British album
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| Total Life Forever
| Best artwork
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| "Spanish Sahara"
| Best track
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