ON November 8, Foals will be performing at the Great Hall at Cardiff University playing tracks from their newly released album.

The band released their eagerly anticipated new album, What Went Down, on August 28.

What Went Down is an album that grapples with questions that are a world away from the bland bleatings of homogenised pop: permanence and impermanence; life and death; solitude; vulnerability; intimacy; passion; rage; humanity – weighty issues that make demands of the people creating that music, and of all those who listen to it, too.

Sonically, it’s an album that precariously seesaws between primal aggression and naked vulnerability. It’s an approach that delivers a contrast of muscular shocks with the fiery central riff of Snake Oil and the menacing percussive march of Albatross set against some of the band’s most openly experimentally moments to date such as cocktail of afrobeat and drum machines that underpins Night Swimmers and the stripped-back, vocal-led Give It All.

Tickets cost £25 each and are available from alt-tickets.co.uk, gigsandtours.com and seetickets.com.