Foals confirm second album title and release date

Foals have released the first details of their new LP, Total Life Forever. The Oxford group's second album will be released on 10 May. "We have some good news!" the band wrote on their MySpace page, promising that "something pretty, pretty, pretty good will be happening on the airwaves this coming Monday". Fans speculate that Foals will debut their new single, rumoured to be titled Spanish Sahara, on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio One show. Along with the MySpace announcement, Foals launched a teaser version of their new website , including a reverse-playing sample of, er, something pretty. The Oxford group claim they will be "withdrawing" from the "world of social nettwerking [sic]", although the new site has prominent "FACEBOOK" and "MYSPACE" links. They have also unveiled their first three concerts of the year, in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris in April. It was over a year ago that frontman Yannis Philippakis began sharing snippets of Foals' songwriting process. While the band's debut, Antidotes, was celebrated by many in 2008, Philippakis was critical of that album, promising better things. Last September, Philippakis dropped hints about Total Life Forever in an interview with the Fly . The music is "darker" and "slower" than their previous work, but "it's still very rhythmic". Just "not quite as dancey", Philippakis said, "and the groove we've got into is more natural". Writing on the band's old blog, keyboard player Edwin Congreave was more specific about Foals' new sound: "Sort of like an inside-out chicken in glorious technicolour," he wrote, "but a bit more vegetarian and a bit less funk."