Foster The People Announce New Album 'Paradise State Of Mind' With First Single Lost In Space
Friday, 31 May 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Jimmy Fontaine
Foster The People have returned with details of their first album in seven years.
'Paradise State Of Mind' is slated to arrive on August 16 via their new label home, Atlantic Records, following up 2017's 'Sacred Hearts Club' and 2021's 'Torches X', a deluxe edition of their debut album 'Torches', released to commemorate the album's 10th anniversary.
As a preview, the Los Angeles indie-pop band have shared the record's first single, the psychedelic, disco-inspired Lost In Space, which also marks their first new music in three years.
Produced by lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Foster, and co-produced by bandmate Isom Innis, it comes with a video that'll premiere on YouTube at 5pm BST today (May 31). Foster said:
"The record started as a case study of the late seventies crossover between disco, funk, gospel, jazz, and all those sounds. 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. 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."
The group have also unveiled the LP's cover art, originally an oil painting on panel, created by Brooklyn-based artist Matt Hansel, below.
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