Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2 - Foals: Review
Foals are a British indie rock band who began releasing material about a decade ago and got off to a pretty hot start, receiving tons of critical acclaim for their 2010 sophomore record Total Life Forever . The band dropped the first of this two part series of records earlier this year to moderate acclaim and have followed it up with part two here. Review By Lavender: I will link my review of the first record in this duo from earlier in the year here and at the end of the review if you'd like to read it. In the intro to that review I mentioned my enjoyment of records like Total Life Forever and the groups most recent album at the time What Went Down . Everything Part 1 turned out to be a solid record but the sound was just a little bit generic for me and it felt like Foals was just playing it by the numbers for a sound they had already thoroughly explored, and on Part 2 the well of creativity is even more shallow as some of my worst fears about the band releasing two...