Foals to release new album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost in two parts for 2019

Foals have announced two new albums to be released this year, both titled Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (parts one and two).

Releasing a cryptic teaser video (directed by Albert Moya), the band announced that the first part of their fifth album will be released on 8 March, while the second will arrive later this year.

Foals’ previous album, What Went Down, came out in 2015. Last year they parted ways with longtime bassist Walter Gervers.

“The parting has been sad but we remain firm friends,” they wrote in a statement.

Frontman Yannis Philippakis told NME in 2017 that the current state of the world had made its way into the band's new material.

"I think the world is obviously affecting the way we feel as individuals," he said. "I definitely feel that when I'm writing lyrics or music, that it's in dialogue with what's going on around me in isolation – so I'm sure there will be things in the lyrics to do with, not just the political climate but also the environmental situation that's happening now."