New music keeps flying at us left and right at a pretty rapid pace. I have no breathing room from the new tunes. I am not complaining though, after all I am always looking to find some new tunes to keep things fresh around the ears.
Foals were one of the most delightful bands to come out of the UK back in 2008. I spent some modest time with their album when it first came out, but it turned out to become one of those records that got better over the months as the songs fiddled around in m mind and grow into entirely new entities. Songs like …
It was good to see a new Foals track posted on Not Many Experts today, taken from a radio rip from Zane Lowe’s (that guy gets all the good exclusives!) BBC show. It’s titled Spanish Sahara and it will be off their new album Total Life Forever. I gotta say, this was not quite what I was expecting as the bands comeback. I was expecting another
Spanish Sahara starts off as a gentle acoustic song with a background of gentle waves coming and going. It continues as a slow burner with vulnerable vocals from vocalist Yannis Philippakis and slowly ticks away taking the listener to a far away land. It gradually builds into a lovely jam with a steady kick of the bass drum, clean strumming, and adding electronic effects. The textural sounds fill the air above your head and dance around your mind absorbing all of your airspace. It clocks in at 6:30, which makes it the longest song from the band so far. At about 4:18 the song takes off in flight in what I may mark one of the best musical moments of 2010. It is pretty damn breathtaking.
I am impressed. It’s pretty evident that Foals took a lot of consideration to everything in Spanish Sahara, and they creating arguably one their best songs to date. If the rest of Total Life Forever sounds this good, Foals will have walked right over the sophomore slump.
[mp3] : Foals – Spanish Sahara
There is also a video for Spanish Sahara, posted below:
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Ken — 14 May 10
Nice post. Agree completely. I’ve only just recently given this track the attention it deserves. The chord progression and subsequent build up reminds me of Transatlanticism by Death Cab. And the guitar solos that appear after the song picks up remind of Explosions in the Sky.
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