The Colts have shared new versions of three tracks they recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra – listen below.
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The group recorded the tracks ‘2001’ and ‘Life Is Yours’ from the 2022 album ‘Life Is Yours’ and ‘Wash Off’ from 2019’s ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 2’, as part of their Apple Music Session at home.
“The purpose of this session was to work with the London Contemporary Orchestra, of which we are huge fans,” explains singer/guitarist Yannis Philippakis. “They did amazing scores for Paul Thomas Anderson, they worked with Johnny Greenwood and they did all kinds of amazing orchestrations.
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“We also worked with them on (the 2013 album) ‘Holy Fire’, and we hadn’t done that since, so it was kind of a reunion. It was really fun to send them the tracks and to have Hugh (Brunt, Co-Artistic Director and Co-Senior Director) of the LCO) transcribe and translate the ideas on different instruments, which were bass saxophone, marimba, vibraphone, untuned percussion and cello.”
He continues, “Wash Off has a lot of instruments, so it was just right and lyrically appropriate. We did it in a little studio called The Firepit. We had the opportunity to work with some amazing engineers and it was a joy to work with professional musicians in the band and to come up with new ideas as we walk through the room.
“We tried a few additional approaches and it was an experience of creative liberation. The past two years have taught me that I need music more than anything else. And that the power of live music, in particular, is something you should never take for It’s fundamental to being a human being.
In December it was announced that Reading & Leeds would host Foals as headliners for the second time after their appearance in 2016, with The Killers, Sam Fender, Billie Eilish, Imagine Dragons and Lewis Capaldi also headlining among a very stacked lineup. Check out the full poster here.
“It’s amazing,” Philippakis told NME. “We didn’t expect to do it a second time. To be invited back is amazing. We’ve been attached to the festival since we started and it’s going to be amazing. It’s definitely one of the craziest festivals around. , so for us it will be the perfect show. The energy will be maximum”.
Following their hugely successful critically acclaimed album “Life Is Yours” (2022), as well as their well-received headlining gigs in the UK and headlining position at The Other Interning at Glastonbury, Philippakis promised the band would deliver “a full Foals show” with a few more tricks up their sleeve.
The Reading and Leeds Festival 2023 will take place at Little John’s Farm, Reading and Bramham Park, Leeds, from 25-27 August 2023. Visit here to buy tickets and find out more.