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Foster The People
Jan 19, 2014
Along with recently confirming their attendance at the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Foster The People are also set to release their highly anticipated album, Supermodel via Columbia Records on March 18th. The 12-track effort is led by the new single "Coming of Age," which is built on bright guitar riffs, layered vocals and snappy handclaps. Overall, the band believes that the album was intended to be "more organic and human, because the first record was so electronic and synthetic."
"It'll be interesting," front-man, Mark Foster says. "It's not the record that people are gonna expect us to release second. It's definitely an evolution for us, and it's a more polarizing record for us, so I'm excited to see how it's received, for better or worse."
Produced by Paul Epworth, the globally influenced album is the follow-up to the group's critically acclaimed 2011 debut Torches. Recorded in various locations around the world, Supermodel began as Foster The People, front-man Mark Foster and Paul Epworth set up a writing studio in a riad in Essaouira, Morocco at the end of 2012.
"We didn't have any rules. We just created as much as we could in seven days," Foster recalls, "And in the spirit of wanderlust and discovery we ended up stumbling on the musical identity of what this record was going to feel like."
Foster the People is Foster, Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius. Founded by Foster in 2009, the group achieved success with the 2011 release of their debut album Torches, which has sold nearly 2 million albums and over 9 million singles worldwide. Torches features the #1 hit single "Pumped Up Kicks," which was declared "the year's anthem" by SPIN, and also spawned the chart topping singles "Don't Stop (Color On The Walls)," "Houdini," and "Helena Beat." Foster the People earned three GRAMMY nominations for their monumental debut, including Best Alternative Album, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Pumped Up Kicks" and Best Short Form Music Video for "Houdini."