Foals

Foals make expansive indie rock built on dense arrangements of danceable rhythms and punchy guitars.

Formed in Oxford, England in the mid-2000s, the band emerged in the wake of the breakup of frontman Yannis Philippakis and percussionist Jack Bevan’s math-rock group, The Edmund Fitzgerald.

Early singles, like 2007’s “Mathletics,” have a notably dance-punk bent—a reaction to the more serious sounds heard in Oxford during that era.