Foals是支很有趣的带有舞曲风格的英国独立乐队，这从他们的官网上色调明快且似信手涂鸦的图案和各种有趣的乐队图片和MV上就能显其端倪，当你长时间听带有电子气息的声音后，你会发现，当关掉音箱声音后，世界是如此安宁。

★ 最受英國音樂傳媒矚目的樂團，以後搖滾為根基、內斂實在前衛搖滾，全新樂風改革的錄音室專輯！
★ 推薦首支單曲「Spanish Sahara」，過去生硬鏗鏘的吉他節拍已不在，介於內斂與狂放之間起伏不間斷的節奏教人沉溺！
Foals是由主唱/吉他手Yannis Philippakis、吉他手Jimmy Smith、貝斯手Walter Gervers、鼓手Jack Bevan、鍵盤手Edwin Congreave這五位20歲出頭的年輕小伙子所組成的樂團，他們最初是在英國家鄉牛津相識，相談甚歡下進而組起樂團，為了投身創作，就讀牛津大學的Yannis和Edwin甚至不惜休學，其中只有團員Jimmy完成大學學業。融合多種前衛的搖滾樂風的首發專輯"Antidotes"，即得到英國衛報、觀察家報，以及AMG、NME、Uncut、滾石、時代等世界知名音樂雜誌的青睞好評，並順勢拿下英國專輯榜#3，以及金唱片的銷售認證！
為了此張2010年全新的第二張錄音室專輯"Total Life Forever"，Foals特別遠離倫敦，前往位在較為清幽的家鄉牛津Jericho的一間獨棟工作室創作，並在這裡完成了專輯中百分之八十的音樂，之後，Foals更前往瑞典哥德堡錄音，請到後搖滾/電子樂團Clor前吉他手Luke Smith擔任專輯製作。專輯的歌詞部分與過去想到什麼寫什麼以及意義令人難懂的寫作模式大為不同，這次Yannis據說是在自家中一間被染料塗抹到眼花撩亂的小房間裡，獨自於深夜中把歌詞寫作完成，揭露他更為私密的深層思考，並跳脫安全領域，決定讓歌迷看見實實在在的Foals。"Total Life Forever"也暫且放下了"Antidotes"的一絲不苟與難以捉摸、古怪的完美旋律，以更人性化的音符貼近各位樂迷。一開場的「Blue Blood」，由靜謐空間感的vocal迴盪推進到副歌的跳動電波、最後再從精彩的激昂末段導回靜謐的開端，Yannis也一改從前的吼式唱法，以柔軟飄蕩的歌聲襯著「Blue Blood」，而首支單曲「Spanish Sahara」更可以顯著感覺到過去生硬鏗鏘的吉他節拍已不在，不斷地唱著『I’m the fury in your head, I’m the fury in your bed, I’m the ghosts in the back of your head』，加上Foals的器樂鋪陳，那介於內斂與狂放之間，引著聽者情緒隨之高低起伏的節奏不斷交疊，仔細一聽還聽得見背景Foals刻意放置的海浪聲。一波波的音牆撞擊，貝斯與鼓猛烈的陣陣打擊，「The Orient」雖鼓譟不已卻教人安心沉溺。Foals漂亮的轉變創作模式，捏製出風格迥異的兩張專輯："Antidotes"怪異創新的節拍，"Total Life Forever"有著後搖滾根基、內斂實在前衛搖滾，Foals才剛進行首次的音樂改革，就已經令人相當期待他們下一次的動作！

From playing chaotic house parties in their home city of Oxford to becoming major festival headliners across Europe, Foals’ trajectory has been remarkable. They’ve earned critical acclaim (NME and Q Award wins, plus Mercury Prize, Ivor Novello and BRIT Award nominations) and fan devotion (1.7 million sales of their four Gold-certified albums) in equal measure. And while the majority of contemporaries have fallen by the wayside, Foals continue to hit new peaks. After more than a decade in the game, Foals again embrace that love for the unconventional with the bravest and most ambitious project of their career: not one, but two astonishing new albums: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost. A pair of releases, separate but related, they share a title, themes and artwork. Part 2 follows later in the year. “They’re two halves of the same locket,” frontman Yannis Philippakis explains. “They can be listened to and appreciated individually, but fundamentally, they are companion pieces.”
Fundamentally tethered but possessing their own personalities, the two bodies capture the most compelling, ambitious and cohesive creations they’ve ever produced. Eager to break the traditional pop song structure which they felt they were becoming increasingly tapered to, the 20 tracks defy expectation. There are exploratory, progressive-tinged tracks alongside atmospheric segues which make the music an experience rather than a mere collection of songs. Yet the band’s renowned ability to wield relentless grooves with striking power and skyscraper hooks also reaches new heights. The album’s lead single Exits is a case in point, featuring Philippakis conjuring the image of a disorienting world via a contagious vocal melody. It’s a fresh anthem for Foals’ formidable arsenal, but also an ominous forecast. “There's a definite idea about the world being no longer habitable in the way that it was,” says Yannis. “A kind of perilousness lack of predictability and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the magnitudes of the problems we face. What's the response? And what’s the purpose of any response that one individual can have?” Exits signposts what to expect thematically from both instalments of Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost. The title is a warning that anything – from the tiniest fleeting moment of inspiration through to the planet’s own biological diversity – can be under threat of being irrevocably erased. It’s a theme that permeates throughout the album’s material, as Foal mirror the public neuroses that have been provoked by our current cultural climate. Paranoia of state surveillance? Fear of environmental collapse? Anxiety over Trump’s next potentially cataclysmic move? It’s all there in these apocalyptic songs.