Foster The People
Torches
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MOG Editorial Review
Though they're a rock band at their core, LA's Foster the People have balanced it with just enough of a poppy dance influence on their debut album, Torches, to guarantee that they'll end up on summer playlists for years to come. Much of this is owed to their breakthrough single, "Pumped Up Kicks," the kind of crossover track that can appeal to pretty much any sub-culture, featuring light-hearted vocal delivery, slick basslines, and just enough heaviness to appeal to kids in need of some guitars in their dance music. For the rest of Torches, Mark Foster and company stick to a similar formula without ever sounding quite the same on any track, but there's just enough keyboard-laden bounciness to each and every chorus to guarantee that you'll sing along to this album no matter how hard you try to resist.
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AMG Review of Torches
Matt Collar
All Music GuideFoster the People's 2011 full-length debut Torches expands upon the indie electronic outfit's '80s synth-meets-'60s psych pop sound. Buoyed by the online buzz surrounding the band's single "Pumped Up Kicks," Foster the People have crafted a batch of similarly catchy, electro-lite dance-pop that fits nicely next to such contemporaries as MGMT and Phoenix. To these ends you get the aforementioned anthem "Pumped Up Kicks," as well as the hypnotic disco hop track "Call It What You Want." Equally compelling are such deep cuts as the yearning, melancholy ballad "I Would Do Anything for You" and the foot stomping arcade game-sounding anthem "Houdini." Burning with a hot track intensity somewhere in between early evening rave-up and late-night club afterglow, Torches is a beacon of melodic dance-pop love.
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- Release Date 2011
- Label COLUMBIA
- Genre Alternative/Indie
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