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Foals have revealed that they are currently locked in the studio recording material for the follow up to 2013's Holy Fire. 

While it may be a tad early to discuss the band's next album, in an interview with the NME, frontman Yannis Philippakis did give some very early insights into the band's next step. He revealed that they are indeed in the studio (lovingly reffered to as "the stinkbox"), but that what they have so far is merely a collection of riffs and loops that may not even make onto the album.

"Over the next month I think we're going to start writing tentatively," he told the NME We've already got some bits and bobs around some riffs and som vocal melodies. I think until May we're gonna go back to Oxford and write in the "stinkbox" and see what happens."

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"I wanted to go back to the studio in Oxford because I think it's good to be grounded after you've been doing what we've been doing for the last year. I wanted to go back to somewhere that felt safe and familiar. Also it kind of sounds awful in there, so if something can sound good in there then you'll know it'll sound good anywhere."

"Some of the stuff we've got has been written during soundchecks, there's a couple of riffs from soundchecks. We actually kind of stopped soundchecking a lot because it just got boring, I like the unpredictability of going on stage with bad sound. And then there's, loops and stuff, it's like the usual mixture of different approaches."

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