Antidotes

Foals' debut, like many British records, trails clouds of homeland hyperbole. The press is calling them "math rock" and the band members have cited Gwen Stefani and Steve Reich, but Foals are squarely in a more recent and less exotic tradition: the hi-gloss end of the post-punk revival.

<p>Mariah Carey, The Young Knives and more</p>

Foals, a precocious art-punk quintet from Oxford, England, is more of a curiosity on paper than in practice.

<p>(Transgressive)</p>

Album Reviews: Foals - Antidotes