'What Went Down' As the curtains are drawn on the new Foals album, cymbals crash and after a few bars, we’re racing with an immeasurable intensity. Guitars palm-mute on the defensive and then unload.

Foals are frequently praised for their live performance and, on the evidence, it’s not hard to see why: the album’s bigger, more atmospheric songs in particular seem built to blow the roof off a ...

During the sessions for his band’s new record in the South of France, Yannis Philippakis — singer-songwriter-guitarist of the English quintet Foals — often passed a building on the outskirts of town ...