True to their name, Oxford five-piece Foals are still young -- frontman Yannis Philippakis is just 23 -- so growth is is to be expected, in one way or another. But they've shifted up quite a bit from their debut days; gone is Antidotes' producer Dave Sitek (Luke Smith gets tapped for the recently released followup Total Life Forever), and with him the more dense and wound-up rhythms. On "Miami," you hear a more swaying groove that's certainly less anxious than their last pass, and with its video you see far less an oil-slicked political statement than with their last album's clip "Olympic Airways" (though their British statement on petroleum would be even more timely now). There are prison-yard buffed bods, wire fences and a fight scene that's resolved by the arrival of a hydraulic-powered Chevy. And lots of blue powder being blown around? The video stars famed transexuals Calpernia Addams and Glamourous Monique, and is very weird.
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True Life Forever is out in the States via Sub Pop.
