Foals announce comeback single 'Wake Me Up' after cryptic teaser video

Foals have announced their new single 'Wake Me Up' will arrive next Thursday (November 4th).

The band teased new material on Wednesday (October 27th) with a cryptic video on Twitter. In the video, an alarm goes off at 18:10 on November 4th as the words “Wake Me Up” flash across the screen.

#WakeMeUp pic.twitter.com/ZcIflEaKKG

— FOALS (@foals) October 27, 2021

Foals confirmed that their new song 'Wake Me Up' will be arriving next Thursday and shared a 15 second snippet of the track yesterday (October 28th). The band encouraged fans to pre-save the single ahead of its arrival.

Pre-save our brand new song WAKE ME UP now! Out everywhere next Thursday 4th November.

Set yr alarms 🌺 https://t.co/Eb4cSE1x8K#WakeMeUp pic.twitter.com/RiJj0zCSA3

— FOALS (@foals) October 28, 2021

The prolific rock outfit have been working on their follow up to 2019’s double album, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost. This will be the band’s first release since long-standing keyboard player Edwin Congreave left last month. Congreave told fans that he had heard the new album and that it was “brilliant.”

The band announced Congreave’s departure on Instagram after he played his final show with them in London:

“We’re sad to say that we played our final show with Edwin Congreave as a member of Foals at All Points East festival in London,” they wrote. The band added that after Congreave’s 15 years of “sweet music making & surfing the globe together, he’s decided to hang up his musical boots to pursue other avenues of life.”

 

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The keyboardist left to do a post graduate in economics at Cambridge University. “Music is a balm and a light, and so I couldn’t be prouder to have called myself a musician, and to have played a part in Foals’ journey from indie delinquents to bona fide rock stars,” he said about leaving the group.

"I hope it's not too melodramatic to say that Foals saved my life — really. And I've been moved over the years by messages from fans saying that our music helped shine a path through their hard times too. That will stay with me my whole life,” he added.

In the same statement, the band said that they had been writing music as a three piece “which we cannot wait to share with you.” In 2018, the band’s bassist Walter Gervers left the band after 12 years. “The parting has been sad but we remain firm friends,” Foals wrote on Instagram announcing his departure at the time.

“We can see what the record is, and the future looks fantastic," said frontman Yannis Philipakkis in an interview with NME. “We’ve been working away and writing all year. We’re just in the last stages of it and it’s feeling like a more optimistic record than the last two. It’ll be a more physical record. We’re really excited to have a record that’s almost ready, but not quite," he added.

The group debuted a new track 'Novo' at an August show in Cardiff Castle — their first in 18 months. The song featured a chorus where Philipakkis repeatedly sang "Wake Me Up" which suggests that 'Wake Me Up' may be 'Novo' re-titled.

Watch Foals performance of 'Novo' captured by a fan below. 

 

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