- 2024-06-01
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MUSIC
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Foster The People Announces New Album “Paradise State of Mind”, Shares New Song “Lost In Space”
Los Angeles-based indie pop band Foster The People, consisting of Mark Foster (vocals/guitar) and Isom Innis (keyboards), is back. The band has announced their fourth studio album “Paradise State of Mind” will be released on August 16, 2024 via Atlantic Records.
The album is their first body of work in seven years since the 2017 album “Sacred Hearts Club” and comprises a 11-track, produced by Mark Foster.
Also, it is the first release under their new label Atlantic Records.
From the album, the band released the first single called “Lost In Space” along with a music video on May 31, 2024.
The track was written by Isom Innis and Mark Foster. The accompanying music video was directed by Rupert Höller.
“The record started as a case study of the late '70s crossover between disco, funk, gospel, jazz, and all those sounds,” Mark Foster said of the album in a statement. “It was such a beautiful moment in time, when these different styles of music were cross-referencing each other - artists like Nile Rogers and Chic, the Tom Tom Club and Giorgio Moroder. I wanted to dive into that and figure out what they were doing.”- He continued, “I was also thinking about how that era has musical and social parallels to the time that we're in now, with the giant recession in the Seventies, the political turmoil post-Vietnam, and other major tensions. But then you see these expressions of joy happening through music, and I started thinking about joy as an act of defiance.”
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He said of the album cover art, “The album's artwork was originally an oil painting on panel, created by renowned Brooklyn based artist, Matt Hansel. It captures the essence of different spaces in the mind. Each space represents its current state and leads to another that may have a totally different feeling."
Photo by Jimmy Fontaine - source : Apple Music
