Due to numbers, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to have an original sound in the music world, specifically indie music. A reviewer's need to classify music into a marginalized 'sound' created the crossbred genres of music "Freak-Folk", "Post-Rock", "DancePunk" etc. More and more, bands are all starting to sound the same in any given category.
Early on (and by early I'm referring to seven years ago, bands like the Rapture, !!!, the Faint (and soon Bloc Party) started the DancePunk revolution with quickly (within five years) burnt itself out. Reason being, it was infusing punk beliefs with disco musical effects - two genres that were created more or less as a revolt of what was popular at the time... disco a little less than punk, but still...
In the music scene today you will hear bands using disco beats with a horn or string section and they'll sound like their obviously trying to do too much.
Enter Foals
The band expanding on the sound of Minus the Bear mixed with Franz Ferdinand
This is Math/Dance/Punk -and it works.
It's different than Battles since there is a singer using just his voice (no synthesized effect or pedals) and it sounds good.
Foals:
Minus The Bear:
They sound a bit alike, minus the lame us voice/accent of Minus the Bear.
Something about a Brit voice makes you want to dance... 'eh?
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