Foals have given an update on the progress of their hotly-anticipated fourth album, stating it will be sound 'more extreme' than Holy Fire and was fuelled by '130 bottles of red wine'.
Speaking to Q about the follow-up to 2013's Mercury-nominated Holy Fire, frontman Yannis Philippakkis revealed that the lyrics had been inspired by Nick Cave, and that the sound of the James Ford-produced record was going to have a great deal more depth.
"We felt that the spread on Holy Fire was good but on this we wanted to push it out even further, so the extremes were further apart," said Yanis. "The heavier songs are heavier, the popper songs are popper and weirder."
Guitarist Jimmy Smith added: : "We drank about 130 bottles of this red wine called Ardèche...I don't think there was a point where we were all drunk."
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Speaking to Gigwise about the new album last year, Yannis said: "We're just turning the heat up in the oven a little bit. We haven't put the dish in, but we're like, pre-warming the oven."
He continued: "We might have some surprises coming out for fans, but they'll have to wait and see."
When asked where the band were planning to take their sound from here, Yannis replied: "We don't really think about it. I find it's kind of counterproductive to do that, but I'm pretty sure it will be different in some way.
"I think that's sort of the lifeblood of the band - for each track to vary a little and hold its own place on the album, but we'll see."
Meanwhile, Foals are set for a number of European festival appearances this summer.
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