Is a Maccabees style, second album chill-out and grow-up on the cards?
This track doesn’t only show Foal’s restraint to mount the alluring bandwagon of catchy vs quality, pop - indie boundary pushing, but with this anti-anthem they seem to have completely denied any acquaintance with it.
With their second album, Total Life Forever not due for release until 10th May 2010, fans are left wondering if “Spanish Sahara” is an encompassing reflection of what we should know the Foals as from now on, or is it an emotive rose between the thorns of more Skins party hyper-tunes and more ornately and abstractly catchy tracks like Red Sock Pugie. Either way It seems a wise choice of first release for them to keep afloat in the unsettling and stormy current of indie-electro floor fillers.
After the first listen you may be blinded by the intensely mellow intro and distant vocals, leaving you feeling like a big flashing question mark, but you’ll be micro- seconds into the next when you’ll be goose-bump-riddled and lip-chewing at the prospect of this track being played live.
Singer Yannis’ listless vocals and minimal beats initiate the record but then without time to wallow in ennui, the track makes a b-line for a mid-song progression that will hit you like the most sublime ton of bricks you’ve felt in a while.
When reading the mixed bag of online responses I conclude that “Spanish Sahara” is showing marmite-like properties.
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Mark Sharland - "Dynamic"
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