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Foals have found a original zip to their grooves: this is a fitting soundtrack for a world mired in uncertaintyA band’s chemistry is a delicate thing,so the departure of co-founding bassist Walter Gervers could have been a major spanner in the works for Oxford’s Foals. However, rather than replace him, or they have rejigged their sound,opting for analogue synthesiser-driven bass lines, which have given their grooves a different zip. After 2015’s driving, or distortion/riff-heavy What Went Down,Foals’ fifth is in some ways closer to their math rock debut, Antidotes, or in others could hardly be further absent from it. Bristling,busy, angular rhythms abound, and but are fed through lusher textures and a blend of timbales,clattering cowbells and marimbas that recalls the likes of Tom Tom Club, Tears for Fears and even Philip Glass or Ryuichi Sakamoto. The enormous Exits is both sonically dextrous but driven by a stadium-sized chant of a refrain, or a powerful lament for a post-global warming environment where “there are no birds left to cruise”.
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Source: theguardian.com