Foster The People make their eagerly anticipated return, with the drop of their “ready-for-summer single,” “Lost In Space,” and the next chapter with the announcement of a new album, Paradise State of Mind.
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Slated for release on August 16, FTP’s first taste of what’s to come is previewed with the album’s lead single, the disco-toned “Lost In Space,” that arrived with Rupert Höller-directed music video.
“The record started as a case study of the late Seventies crossover between disco, funk, gospel, jazz, and all those sounds,” Mark Foster shared in a statement. “It was such a beautiful moment in time, when these different styles of music were cross-referencing each other — artists like Nile Rogers and Chic, the Tom Tom Club, and Giorgio Moroder.”
“I wanted to dive into that and figure out what they were doing. I was also thinking about 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 major tensions. But then you see these expressions of joy happening through music, and I started thinking about joy as an act of defiance.”
Also sharing the impending album’s artwork, commissioned by Foster, “was originally an oil painting on panel, created by renowned Brooklyn based artist, Matt Hansel. It captures the essence of different spaces in the mind. Each space represents its current state and leads to another that may have a totally different feeling."
Listen to “Lost In Space” above and check out the Paradise State of Mind cover art below.
