a tribute to foals

Yannis Phillipakis brings chaos wherever he goes as standard, and is growing into a frontman who can demand anything from a crowd and receive it instantly.

A lot of the time we don’t soundcheck, so the first time I see the stage is when we do the show. Give me some credit. I’m not going out there and going to stake it out with tape measures. But if the crowd don’t catch you, you’re in big trouble. I know, and I’m not as light as I used to be.

Nothing like the cool, white melancholy of an airport at night

The greatest power as a musician is all the moments you don’t know about, what it’s been party to. Moments when someone’s listening on a morning commute, or a 15-year old is mowing his grandma’s lawn for a buck. Just someone who’s finding solace in your music. All the intangible moments that you’ll never know about. That’s the deeper connection. Even though I can’t be privy to those moments, I know our music’s connected to the unknowable masses out there. And that’s what’s beautiful about music, the power for it to commune with people in their most intimate moments.

The perfect blue evening We sit and drink and we sing Smoke flowers rising high Under the flaming sky

Now that we’re older, the future is colder