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Following up from their expansive two-part album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost of 2019, Foals are back with their brand new single ‘Wake Me Up’, the lead single from a brand-new album arriving in 2022.

From what we can hear on the new single, Foals’ next album is going to be bursting with life. Full of dazzling, Nile Rodgers-esque guitars, Foals are back and ready to experiment with different sounds and the result is a feel-good morsel of pure musical escapism. Here’s what frontman Yannis Philippakis said about the new era of music:

“There’s a journey that the band has gone on experimenting with different palettes of sound. This time there was a desire to take it back to more of the initial idea of the band where the rhythm, the grooves and the guitars are interlocking architecturally. We wanted to tap into the physicality of music. And we wanted it to feel good".

“With ‘Wake Me Up’, I just wanted to write a song about transporting yourself to a better, idyllic situation.  I think we all had that feeling of the last eighteen months being like a weird fever dream that felt surreal but very affecting. I think we all wished we could have woken up somewhere else at various points.”

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