What Went Down

by Foals

What Went Down cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 August 2015
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:27:49
  • Community rating: 3.62/5 from 13 ratings

Artists on this release: Jack Bevan, Jimmy Smith, Walter Gervers, Yannis Philippakis

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recording in a rural village in southern France, the band delivers their heaviest, most arena-ready collection of muscular guitar anthems to date. While retaining the tight, syncopated rhythms of their math-rock origins, the arrangements heavily prioritize enormous, stadium-shaking choruses and Yannis Philippakis' aggressive, roaring vocals. It solidified their status as premier festival headliners in the modern UK rock scene.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, guitar-driven, rhythmic, melodic, dynamic

Tracklist

  1. What Went Down (5:00)
  2. Mountain at My Gates (4:04)
  3. Birch Tree (4:21)
  4. Give It All (4:47)
  5. Albatross (5:23)
  6. Snake Oil (4:21)
  7. Night Swimmers (4:44)
  8. London Thunder (4:14)
  9. Lonely Hunter (4:37)
  10. A Knife in the Ocean (6:52)
  11. Rain - B-Side (3:24)
  12. Daffodils - B-Side (3:34)
  13. London Thunder - CCTV Sessions (5:14)
  14. Albatross - CCTV Sessions (6:06)
  15. Lonely Hunter - CCTV Sessions (5:28)
  16. Snake Oil - CCTV Sessions (5:02)
  17. Give It All - Poolside Sessions (5:41)
  18. London Thunder - Poolside Sessions (4:49)

Credits

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