Foals turn a club banger into a club banger and simultaneously prove that house music is good for more than torture. The Oxford band inject the track by Swedish House Mafia with a healthy dose of rock and roll, translating the cliched electronic sounds of regurgitated dance music into something dynamic and living. Drummer Jimmy Smith keeps the trademark four-on-the-floor kick drum house rhythm and adds flourishes of roto-tom and shaker. Yannis' British croon contributes a yearning to the sparse vocal that doesn't exist in the original, and besides, British accents just sound good. Foals also trim the fat from the song by cutting the extended instrumental breaks and exaggerated buildups, leaving nothing but lean, danceable muscle.






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