On the face of things,
Foals pursuing hedonism shouldn’t ever really be classed as a break with the norm; after all, this is the same band that told NME, as their live commitments for
Total Life Forever were drawing to a close, that “we all have healthy drinking problems.” In an interview with Australian blog Moshcam in 2013, during promotion for
Holy Fire, frontman Yannis Philippakis weighs up a drug-fuelled pool party at Benicassim against an afterparty-turned-skinny-dipping session in Byron Bay for the title of the “biggest night” they’d ever had on tour; guitarist Jimmy Smith, in the same video, recalls a show in Chicago that ended with Philippakis stopping traffic and threatening to behead their merch guy. “The end of