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FOALS

Wait four years for a new Foals album and then two come along at the same time. Almost. If 2015’s What Went Down was the record that elevated the Oxford outfit to rock’s major league, then the follow-up would undoubtedly provide a leg up to the next stratospheric level.

Not that Foals have ever been a band to concern themselves with such things as world domination. They are a genuine word of mouth success story that’s built

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