Foals frontman and guitarist Yannis Philippakis has announced a new collaborative EP with Tony Allen, the late drummer who played heavily with Fela Kuti, under the name Yannis & the Yaw. He’s also shared the EP’s lead single, “Walk Through Fire.”
Landing on August 31st, the Lagos Paris London ft. Tony Allen EP has been in the works from the Foals frontman for over eight years. Philippakis first worked with Tony Allen in Paris in 2016, and began collaborating with the Nigerian Afrobeats pioneer as well as multi-instrumentalists Vincent Taeger, Vincent Taurelle, and Ludovic Bruni.
According to Philippakis, the two-day sessions culminated in an unfinished EP, and they occasionally regrouped to finish over the following four years until Covid isolated both him and Allen. Allen sadly passed in April 2020, and Philippakis felt a responsibility to carry the EP through to the finish line: “There was an imperative to finish it...
Landing on August 31st, the Lagos Paris London ft. Tony Allen EP has been in the works from the Foals frontman for over eight years. Philippakis first worked with Tony Allen in Paris in 2016, and began collaborating with the Nigerian Afrobeats pioneer as well as multi-instrumentalists Vincent Taeger, Vincent Taurelle, and Ludovic Bruni.
According to Philippakis, the two-day sessions culminated in an unfinished EP, and they occasionally regrouped to finish over the following four years until Covid isolated both him and Allen. Allen sadly passed in April 2020, and Philippakis felt a responsibility to carry the EP through to the finish line: “There was an imperative to finish it...
- 4/16/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
Walter Gervers, the founding bassist of British indie rock band Foals, has rejoined the group following a six-year hiatus, vocalist Yannis Philippakis announced on his Instagram Tuesday.
“After 6 years in the alpine wilderness guess who’s back in the band?!! Walter is back & better than ever,” Philippakis excitedly wrote in the caption for a photo of him, drummer Jack Bevan, and guitarist Jimmy Smith drinking in a pub. “Rejoining for all the coming shows & into the future. Get ready, the boys are back in business...
“After 6 years in the alpine wilderness guess who’s back in the band?!! Walter is back & better than ever,” Philippakis excitedly wrote in the caption for a photo of him, drummer Jack Bevan, and guitarist Jimmy Smith drinking in a pub. “Rejoining for all the coming shows & into the future. Get ready, the boys are back in business...
- 5/2/2023
- by Cervanté Pope
- Consequence - Music
Foals have released a music video for single “In Degrees.” The song, which comes off the band’s recent album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1, takes on a sun-soaked, party-going vibe in the clip, which was directed by Aaron Brown and shot in Brazil. The video, which flips between the band performing in empty ruins and performing in a raucous celebration, reflects the song’s climate change-inspired lyrics.
“Essentially it’s about when you’re aware of a relationship slowly slipping away, incrementally bit by bit, there’s no a big dramatic moment,...
“Essentially it’s about when you’re aware of a relationship slowly slipping away, incrementally bit by bit, there’s no a big dramatic moment,...
- 5/16/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Foals mutate from a spacey soundscape to a wild dance-punk groove on their heady new song “Sunday.” The track appears on the British indie-rock quartet’s upcoming fifth LP, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost — Part 1, out March 8th via Warner Bros.
The track opens with singer-guitarist Yannis Philippakis gently crooning about burning cities and youthful optimism over swaying electric guitars and ambient keyboard textures. “We don’t give a damn ’cause we got all our friends right here,” he sings. “We got youth to spend.” The arrangement shifts halfway through into a faster,...
The track opens with singer-guitarist Yannis Philippakis gently crooning about burning cities and youthful optimism over swaying electric guitars and ambient keyboard textures. “We don’t give a damn ’cause we got all our friends right here,” he sings. “We got youth to spend.” The arrangement shifts halfway through into a faster,...
- 2/26/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
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