
Foals have pushed back their UK tour til next year
Their UK tour has been rescheduled to April and May 2021.
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'Exits' unfolds as a meditation on surveillance and enclosure, its lyrics painting a world where natural order has inverted: the sea consumes the sky, flowers grow upside down, cities sink underground. Foals construct a landscape of constraint, where watchers monitor sleep and language itself becomes suspect. The song's emotional core rests on apology and powerlessness, a speaker caught between wanting to shout and finding all routes of escape sealed off. The track builds its tension through repetition and accumulation. Phrases loop and deepen, dreams recur as the only space beyond reach, whilst the chorus returns again and again to a confession of helplessness in a world turned wrong. There's a formal precision to the song's architecture, each section folding back on itself, until the final passage shifts into memory, invoking summers of certainty now lost and brothers separated by screens. It's a song about disconnection that enacts its own formal isolation, each element locked in place.
"Exits" is a single by Foals, from the album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part I, released 8th March 2019. The track is 5:57 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Foals.
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