What Went Down

Rock · 2015 · 14 tracks · 1h 32m

What Went Down

A heavy, visceral pivot toward stadium-sized rock. Jagged math-rock precision meets primal, distorted energy and vast, oceanic atmospheres.

It's the record where they finally let the guitars get as loud and heavy as they always wanted to be.

A relentless, confrontational energy tempered by moments of vast, oceanic melancholy.

What Went Down · vs · Foals

Thunderstorm+3.3σ

Thunderstorm saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks · 1h 32m

01

Crème Anglaise

27:59

01

What Went Down

5:01

02

Mountain at My Gates

4:04

02

What Went Down

5:48

03

Birch Tree

4:21

03

Give It All (Poolside session)

5:40

04

Give It All

4:47

04

London Thunder (Poolside session)

4:47

05

Albatross

5:24

06

Snake Oil

4:21

07

Night Swimmers

4:45

08

London Thunder

4:14

09

Lonely Hunter

4:37

10

A Knife in the Ocean

6:53

Moments Worth Waiting For

the title track's sudden transition from a low-slung bass groove into a primal, screaming wall of distorted guitars

the final two minutes of Mountain at My Gates where the polite indie rhythm dissolves into a chaotic, swirling guitar frenzy

the way A Knife in the Ocean builds from a submerged, watery synth bed into a towering, apocalyptic finale

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