Life Is Yours, the brand new album from Foals, is out everywhere now! Pick up your copy or stream the album here.
The follow-up to the hugely successful two-part Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Life Is Yours is a natural evolution for Foals. While their previous record was defined by its sheer and ambition, Life Is Yours presents a very different experience: an album that will inspire the euphoria and unifying ambience of this summer’s festival circuit.
Intuitively reflective of this moment in time, Life Is Yours was born in the polar opposite circumstances. In the oppressive gloom and isolation of 2020’s bleak midwinter, Foals started to develop new song ideas in their small, windowless rehearsal room in Peckham, south London. The band – Yannis Philippakis, Jack Bevan and Jimmy Smith – found themselves compelled to create ideas which transported them, both sonically and thematically, to a better place.
As Yannis recalls, “When we were in those bleak moments, the songs became the windows, the telescopes to a future in which the world is re-emerging, the sun is out, and people would be back in the clubs and at shows. The streets felt depopulated and being on the road was such a remote prospect that we felt contained and tethered. But in these songs you can sense our desire for the physical communion of a live show – it’s something you can’t even begin to recreate at home.”
As a result, Life Is Yours is a record which positivity beams with sun-kissed summer fervour, life-affirming optimism and a new-found zest for life. Those traits permeate every song that previewed the album, but they also shine throughout the tracks that are now only now unveiled.
In addition to its digital formats, Life Is Yours in also available on varying vinyl, CD and cassette formats here.
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