Foals are teasing their new album with their sort-of-discotastic new single, 'Wake Me Up'

Foals have shared their brand new single ‘Wake Me Up’ - the sort-of-discotastic first taste of a new album, set to follow in 2022.

Frontman Yannis Philippakis says, “There’s a journey that the band has gone on experimenting with different palettes of sound. This time there was a desire to take it back to more of the initial idea of the band where the rhythm, the grooves and the guitars are interlocking architecturally. We wanted to tap into the physicality of music. And we wanted it to feel good.”

Their first song as a three-piece, Yannis adds: “With ‘Wake Me Up’, I just wanted to write a song about transporting yourself to a better, idyllic situation.  I think we all had that feeling of the last eighteen months being like a weird fever dream that felt surreal but very affecting. I think we all wished we could have woken up somewhere else at various points.”