"Paradise State Of Mind": Foster The People Are Reborn

Hey, everyone 

On August 16, 2024 Foster The People will release the follow up to 2017's “Sacred Hearts Club” and their fourth installment in a series of albums. From the first single “Lost In Space”, we gather FTP experimented with disco sounds and nostalgic electronic beats from the 1970s through the 1980s. Since the boys broke out and blew up in mid-2000s, the group have evolved and taken shape to fit the times all while keeping true to their trademark feel good vibes. This is “Paradise State Of Mind”. 

Now that all original members have evacuated the scene, it's now time for Mark Foster and Isom Innis to reinvent the wheel, or at least carve a new path forward with an entire record of new material, including the singles, "Take Me Back" and "Chasing Low Vibrations", and the aforementioned lead single "Lost In Space".

I'm super stoked about this next chapter of Foster The People. Mark and Isom, being the hard workers that they are, really deserve the success and recognition they've been unfairly delayed in receiving. I believe the boys are due for another big moment in the limelight, like their heyday in 2010, or even in 2017. 

“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 crossed-referencing each other - artists like Nile Rogers and Chic, The Tom Tom Club and Girgio Moroder. I wanted to dive into that and figure out what they were doing. I was also thinking 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 tensions. But then you see this expression of joy happening through music, and I started thinking about joy as an act of defiance,” says Mark Foster. 

Since the boys ditched Columbia Records in 2019, they can start to charge ahead with Atlantic as a new home; the past has been upended and doesn't even exist in the modern age. This is Foster The People two point oh! New listeners who have never heard of FTP are in for a treat with a new set of aesthetics and glistening color palettes sure to please the eyes and ears. It's guaranteed to instantly convert them into hardcore fans for generations to come. 

Foster The People is the brainchild of Mark Foster who spent significant time in Los Angeles searching for his big break. During his time in the Golden State, he met Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius who would later serve as two-thirds of FTP. After writing and recording a self-titled EP featuring the iconic “Pumped Up Kicks”, the trio included it on their 2011 full-length debut “Torches”. The song toppled at number 3 on the Billboard chart, and this success carried them into their future career as a successful indie rock band.