注意:recycled coloured vinyl, meaning every record will be a unique colour.
Vinyl reissue of this legendary debut album from Kingston visitors FOALS.
Foals also today announce that their debut album Antidotes will receive a long-awaited vinyl repress to commemorate the 14th anniversary of its original release. This new, single-run pressing will be manufactured using recycled vinyl records – a process which means that all copies will share a mottled, marbled effect, but that also means that each individual record is unique. Antidotes has only previously been available on vinyl following its initial release in 2008, making it an elusive item for collectors.
單曲「Balloons」進軍英國單曲榜#39,NME大膽讚譽「為本年度音樂風潮定調的新團」從Hot Chip、Klaxons、LCD Soundsystem等幾組團體掀起近幾年燃燒全球的Dance-punk新浪潮音樂,這種將舞曲與搖滾調和的新一代曲風漸漸普遍受到大眾的歡迎,在2008年的開端,又一獨立廠牌樂團大放異彩,持續這股新興浪潮推到頂點,NME大膽讚譽「New bands that will define the year!(為本年度音樂風潮定調的新團)」- Foals。
要將Foals歸類是一件很難的事,不能說他們是完全承襲哪一種曲風的樂團,團員表示受極微音樂(Minimal Music)大師 Steve Reich、Post-rock/Math-rock 樂團Sweep The Leg Johnny影響極深,他們幾乎每種風格都全盤接受,也偏愛像賈斯汀(Justin Timberlake)、Gwen Stefani等時下流行的歌曲,應該要說他們是個集結以上影響並綜合來自四面八方的元素,包含Techno, Rock, Pop, Punk, Experimental等多種不同型態的風格、五位思想離經叛道的青年,造就曲風光怪陸離、難以定位,卻又難以抗拒的Foals。
樂團首張專輯"Antidotes"由David Andrew Sitek擔任製作人(Yeah Yeah Yeahs),在去年先行發行的單曲「Balloons」,怪誕的樂器彈跳節拍與漂浮在空中電子微粒相輔相成,拿下英國單曲榜#39;高昂躁動的「Cassius」有著大量規律的吉他絃聲、厚實鼓聲予以此曲背景強勁的支柱,歌曲之高潮部分夾帶恰到好處的合成音效。自認為自己對音樂的要求是到達了強迫症程度的怪才主唱Yannis坦承無法忍受雜亂無章的音樂,追求極致美學的他,要求在他的音樂上必需有完整架構與型式才行,鍾愛將音樂以古怪的排列方式將之呈現,也許難以相信,但結果竟出奇對味,又是令全球樂迷充滿期待的一支樂團。