Ah yes, Foals at the Great American.
For me, good music evokes colors and elicits senses other than just what you hear. The Foals are the color blue. Blue for the ocean, blue for the sky, blue for the color shirt I happened to be wearing last night. Well, the foals seem to know this as well. Their latest recording, the excellent "Total Life Forever" sounds like it was recorded underwater. Great soundscapes that build to excellent transe like rhythms. Highs, lows.
Live, its apparent that these driving rhythms are the strength of the band. At the core of any good Foals song is a building mellow intro into an explosion of guitars and drums. Great examples of this were present all throughout their set at the Great American. The Foals really seem to know their strength and don't stray to far from this recipe, and why should they.
Lead singer Yannis Philippakis is an avid frontman, really connecting with the crowd and driving the band. At one point last night he attempted to scale to the second level of the theater from stage. I didn't think this was possible and was proven right when he made it halfway up only to realize he was stranded. He did the only reasonable thing at this point, and feel back straight into the crowd who carried him on their backs to the stage. awesome.
The Foals played late into the night, closing with one of their oldest tracks "Two Steps Twice" after a three song encore. They don't play in the US often, and seemed really quite thrilled to share the evening with us. Best of all the most prominent color in their stage lighting; Blue. Hopefully we all don't have to wait years for the next tour....
Side note - Freelance Whales opened (or co-headlined). I just don't get this band. Their certainly talented, but really, just not much there. I'll take Mumford and Sons. Bleh.
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