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Oxford, UK quintet Foals will embark on their first North American tour in support of their sophomore release, Total Life Forever.

The tour will begin on September 23 in Minneapolis and will include dates in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Austin, the latter to play this year’s ACL festival on October 10^th.

Below is the list of confirmed tour dates, with more shows to be announced soon.

Foals released Total Life Forever this past May, the follow up to their 2008 debut, Antidotes.

Since that time, the band has played many sold out shows in the UK, including one at Camden Roundhouse, riveted crowds at Glastonbury and Rock at the Ring/Rock in the Park, and has sold-out shows at Reading & Leeds and Brixton Academy still to come.

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As described by the Guardian UK, “A Foals gig is a chance for alt-rock kids to get down and sweaty to a band that produces highly danceable music, while preserving indie qualities such as angst and braininess”, in other words mind melting fun for everyone.

Foals Fall Tour Dates:

September 23 – Minneapolis, 7^th St. Entry

September 24 – Chicago, Lincoln Hall

September 25  – Detroit, Magic Stick

September 27 – Toronto, Lee’s Palace

September 28  – Montreal, La Sala Rossa

September 29 – Boston, Paradise

October 1 – New York City, Bowery Ballroom

October 2– Brooklyn, Music Hall of Williamsburg

October 3 – Washington, D.C., Black Cat

October 5 – Atlanta, Masquerade

October 8 – Houston, Walters

October 9 – Austin, Stubbs

October 10 – Austin, Austin City Limits Festival

October 12 – Denver, Larimer Lounge

October 14 – San Diego, The Casbah

October 18 – El Rey, Los Angeles

October 21 – Portland, Doug Fir

More about Foals and Total Life Forever:

Following the release of their 2008 debut, Antidotes, comes a brand new record from Oxford, UK quintet Foals. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ (“The House of Supreme Mathematics”) and recorded in Gothenburg with former Clor man Luke Smith, Total Life Foreverfinds Foals singing rather than shouting, emotional as well as functional. The band’s soul-search reveals new antidotes found in infinite, internal spaces rather than carved violently upon the air–-Total Life Forever feels more the work of artists than artisans. It’s a triumph that they’ve managed to remain a band of progress and propulsion while investigating that vast, dark space lurking inside themselves-–that gap between ribs where “nature, or god or whatever you wanna call it, will come in.”