Foals to Record New Album Near London, Not In "Ludicrous Locations"

UK-based indie group, Foals, recorded their 2008 debut, Antidotes, in Brooklyn. Their 2010 sophomore record, Total Life Forever, was tracked in Sweden. And they spent time in a Sydney studio while recording 2013's Holy Fire. Suffice to say, they're ready to stay closer to home on their next album.

"The aim is to record early [in 2015]," keyboardist and vocalist Edwin Congreave told NME. "I'd like to do it here [London] - or as close to my house as possible, because I've discovered late in life that I really love staying at home!"

He noted that while recording might not take place in London, it will certainly not be in a "ludicrous" location.

"It's going to be somewhere in Europe - there's definitely a desire in the band to go to ludicrous locations but we've done that a couple of times," Congreave said. "Gothenburg in Sweden in winter was ludicrous in retrospect. We put ourselves in a ridiculously lonely situation."

Last year, lead singer Yannis Philippakis told NME that he "wanted to go back to the studio in Oxford but I also think it's good to be grounded after doing what we were doing last year. I wanted to go back somewhere safe and familiar."

So there you have it: Foals' next LP will be born and bred near England. It is, however, unclear how far into the process they are as they announced the beginning of the process four months ago on Instagram, and apparently have enough where a title and release date seem like far-off ideas.

Check out the group's latest single, "Out of the Woods," while you wait:

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