Foals

Add Date: February 19 

Artist: Foals 

Album: Holy Fire 

Label: Warner Bros. 

Genre: Rock, alternative 

Comments: From AllMusic: "While there are lots of bands dealing in either danceable rock or navel-gazing pop, few bands combine the two quite like Foals. On Holy Fire, the third album from the English band, the post-punk revival is given a newfound sense of depth, creating songs that are rhythmic enough to draw listeners, but hypnotic enough to leave listeners lost in their wide-open spaces. This combination of atmosphere and momentum find Foals growing out of the shadows of titans like the Talking Heads and into a spaced-out, dance-punk niche that's all their own.

"Though a lot of the band's charm comes from the delicate interplay between the guitars and keyboards, the real star of the album comes by way of the massive, stadium-ready 'Inhaler', which takes the sparkling, slow build used throughout the album and turns it on its ear with an eruption of massively fuzzy, Muse-esque guitars (and, to some extent, their bombast), creating one of the album's biggest and most rousing moments."

"Inhaler" is, inarguably, the standout here; also try "My Number, "Milk & Black Spiders" and "Bad Habit".