Holy Fire

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On Foals' third full-length album, the UK rock band continues down the path they set for themselves on 2010's Total Life Forever, favoring newfound maturity over the raw energy that made the band so exciting in the first place.

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There's an added element of showmanship to the Oxford band's third album that establishes it as a point of no return. It's easy to hear Holy Fire as a more muscular complement to Wild Beasts, though its overt commercial appeal aligns Foals with the Cure in stadium mode.