Their debut single on new home Transgressive following their limited-edition Try Harder-released seven-inch of last year (review), Foals’ ‘Hummer’ delights and excites in equal measure.
‘Hummer’ is more pop-math than previous recordings may have hinted. Sounding a bit like Animal Collective rifling through The Rapture’s audio files on electro night, it’s a furious, insistent track that demands dancefloor action from even the most conservative of staid, skinny jeans-wearing stand-arounds.
The best thing is, just as you think it’s going to explode into the biggest shakedown this side of Fabric’s mongy pill night, ‘Hummer’ crescendos to an immediate stop. Making you sad, then happy, then elated. Even as the track reaches its end, your brain presses play and it merrily tangos its way through your neurons for the rest of the day.
i don't understand the 'math' thing
don't get me wrong the songs quite good, but isn't it all 4/4? where's the math!?
It just is...
all right? What do you expect from journalists? factual and technical aptitude and ability?
it sounds like a indie logarithm. so there.
How do you spell logarythm?
hmmm
LOLarhythm.
no
"it sounds like the rapture but good 8/10. by adie nunn"
i should still be a journalist really i think.
i was also under this impression
.
you do the math!
ssssssssssss
Well good songs this.
Why are they
covering the Smashing Pumpkins so early in their careers?
I'm here all day.
you've just
missed 'neighbours'.
reviews for this band will get better
when people stop calling them anything to do with math. all the songs i've heard by them are in 4/4, and there isn't a polyrhythm in sight. animal collective? hmmmmm, maybe not.
Last weeks NME review...
...accused Foals off ripping off Klaxons (words really do fail me).
The review on Planet Sound at the moment describes them as touted as the UK answer to Arcade Fire :S
Have I been listening to the wrong song for the past couple of months?
Great song and everything.
Just...
Eh?
I completely
agree. clearly the journalists who compare foals to klaxons and arcade fire are mentally impaired. let's start a music journalism revolution where you are not allowed to band-drop &/or use different bands as a point of reference!!! WHO'S WITH ME???!!!
(maybe they call it 'math-pop' cause foals' tunes sound like counting exercises????)
.
baby horses can't count
They sound more like...
a cross between early Liars and The Rapture circa 'Out of the Races...'
They're a band to look out for. Most exciting British band since Los Campesinos and Sky Larkin. Yeah yeah, i know, they're both pretty new, but still...
To me
they just sound like a remix album of Bloc Party. Probably doesn't help that his voice is EXACTLY the same.
I'm
such a big fan of hummer that it hurts. It has everything i like about music in it at the moment.
I thought
A hummer was a lingering fart
this is ace
trues!