LA indie pop sensation Foster The People reveal details about their debut album to Undercover.
The Los Angeles trio Foster The People have only released three songs, but have been selling out shows across the US and in Australia due to their hugely catchy single ‘Pumped Up Kicks’, which took the number 32 position in triple j’s annual Hottest 100 countdown.
Now, fans the world over are salivating for their debut album, which primary songwriter Mark Foster reveals during an interview with Undercover is going to be called Torches and will come out in "a couple of months, probably April/May... June/August/July... probably June".
“We just finished our album,” says Foster, “We did a couple of weeks in London but we did most of it in LA.”
They worked with four different producers: Paul Epworth in London and Rich Costey, Tony Hoffer and Greg Kurstin in Los Angeles.
“It was tough for me recording the record,” Foster says, “It was four months, non-stop morning til night recording the record. As much as I love being in the studio, there’s a whole different pressure where the songs that we’re recording now are going to be released. It’s forever, and people are going to hear them and judge them.”
“When I did ‘Pumped Up Kicks’, that song I recorded and wrote in, like, two days,” he continues. “The first version was a demo, and that’s the one that is on the record as well. We didn’t go back and really do anything. I think the spontaneity, it’s hard to capture that, and it’s hard to be spontaneous when you’re thinking that a lot of people are going to be listening to it.”
The band also talk about Foster writing corporate jingles, preventing their Forster The People's music to be put commercials, their first international tour across Australia, surfing, playing in a pizza shop with Wavves, Coachella and Sasquatch Festivals and more.
Check out the whole interview below.
