ACL Fest Artist Spotlight: FOALS

FOALS: By the time U.K.’s FOALS take the stage for their ACL Fest set at Zilker Park on Sunday, they may well be the winners of the prestigious Mercury Prize for 2010. They are going up against luminaries like Paul Weller and peers such as The xx so this is no sure thing, but just the nomination itself speaks volumes about their undoubted talent.

After dropping a couple of singles in 2007, FOALS fully showcased their penchant for inventive quirk-pop on the debut full-length Antidotes in 2008. The first cut of the album was produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek. However, FOALS weren’t too pleased with the outcome, and eventually mixed the record themselves before releasing it. This year, they followed up with Total Life Forever, a slightly more cohesive, less jittery, yet equally riveting smorgasbord of sounds. Watch them unleash this aural splendor on the Lady Bird Lake at 1:15 p.m. on Sunday at ACL Fest.

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