Foals new album gets watery cover art, new video for 'This Orient'
24 March 2010, 11:28
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May 10th sees Foals return with their much-anticipated second album Total Life Forever, preceded on May 3rd by debut single ‘This Orient’. That Nirvanan-esque watery picture above? That’s the cover art.
The album was recorded during late 2009 in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Luke Smith (Clor), and was mixed by Alan Moulder in London 2010.
Tracklisting:
Blue Blood
Miami
Total Life Forever
Black Gold
Spanish Sahara
This Orient
Fugue
After Glow
Alabaster
Two Trees
What Remains
Below is the shimmering video for the lead single ‘This Orient’. Lovely.
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