Foals for love

We meant to do this ages ago but forgot.

However, since it looks like Foals are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BRILLIANT, and that their splendidly arse-swinging ditty ‘Hummer’ is going to have done to it by this series of Skins what the first did to that Gossip song, we think it is time to have a little look at the band’s first foray into ‘getting something on The Hits’, ie. the video for ‘Hummer’.

Let’s have a look at what’s in store:

:: Fast editing
:: Several colours
:: Jerky dancing
:: General air of media studies about the whole thing

00.00 - Do not attempt to watch the beginning of this video if you are drunk.
00.06 - Or hungover.
00.18 - Nice blue jumper there.
00.20 - Or is it a cardigan?
00.22 - Definitely a cardie.
00.32 - CRASH ZOOM! This is Yannis, the man who answered the phone to whatserface while lying shirtless on the floor in the Skins MySpace special and then later went on to play this very tune to a roomful of ‘competition winners’ (ie. unpaid extras).
00.38 - And he’ll have someone’s head off jerking his guitar about like that.
00.51 - The guy behind the synth doesn’t look too involved, does he?
00.57 - DANCE ROUTINE! Break out the tennis gear.
01.24 - Not sure what the last ten seconds were all about.
01.25 - Or the next.
01.30 - In fact, this whole video has been a bit confusing.
01.42 - The camera has now got blue arms sticking out of it.
01.49 to 02.15 - Someone’s been at the Fischerspooner.

And that is that. The remainder of the video is quite disorientating and features the singer lying on the floor and the camera pretending to be a few people and then some more blue-armed people about to go for a swim.

Overall: 9/10

Judge for yourself below.



Incidentally, after our original article about Foals they sent us a lovely email, which amongst other things revealed that they are “working on the haircuts” (a reference to our assertion that they had achieved “varying haircut success“). That was nice of them, was it not?

Yes it was. If you would like to be nice like Foals then you can email us here.

THANKS.
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