Foals have announced that their fourth album What Went Down is set for release on 28 August via Warner Music.
The title track and first single is set to debut on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show this Tuesday (16 June) between 7-9pm, and will be available to download immediately after.
A press release describes the single as a “ferocious monster of a track", which serves as a “statement of intent” which evokes “the blackest depths of an abyss, frenetic, frenzied and theatrical in its delivery”.
The new album was produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence & The Machine, Jessie Ware, Mumford & Sons) and was recorded in the South of France at a rural 19th-century mill.
Speaking of the album’s lyrical content, which deals with themes around cultural identity, generational anxiety, cynicism, pessimism and heartbreak, frontman Yannis Philippakis said: “I wanted to tap into my inner madman and feel like I was channeling some sort of fevered creature”.
Watch a teaser trailer for What Went Down by Foals below:
The tracklisting for What Went Down is as follows:
What Went Down
Mountain At My Gates
Birch Tree
Give It All
Albatross
Snake Oil
Night Swimmers
London Thunder
Lonely Hunter
A Knife In The Ocean
