Foals Talk 'Funkier' Second Album

Foals have spoken about the wide influences they've absorbed on their second album - which will be radically different from their acclaimed debut 'Antidotes'.

The band's frontman Yannis Philippakis told BBC 6 Music: "We've kind of opened up to more funk and dub and stuff. We don't really listen to that much rock music at the moment."

"We're listening to a lot of hip-hop, stuff like Donald Byrd and some long disco edits, Donna Summer, James Brown, stuff that before we would have always felt was too part of the canon."

Philippakis also explained that Foals deliberately wanted to alter their sound. He adds: "We just like to change our skin. We don't really want to have a prescribed boundary of what we feel musically is ok."

"It's been a few years and I think we feel differently about music and about ourselves."

"I think the new stuff is more considered and we're put more thought into keeping it free, because before we used to control stuff to the point of choking it."

Foals release their new album in early 2010.