I’ve spent the last 48 hours listening to music that I’ve heard before. Immersed in live sets on youtube. Listening to the first LCD Soundsystem record all the way through. Using my dust covered record player to hear Tom Waits gravelly vocals on Small Change. But there was one tune that stood out.

You have to travel back to 2015 to find Oxford band Foals’ latest album. Their What Went Down record mixed unforgiving rock with dreamy slow burners like London Thunder. They went on to tour in 2016 and played festivals throughout the summer. In March 2016, however, they unveiled an unreleased track that still isn’t available on Spotify today.

The track is called Rain. Far removed from the early punk days of Two Steps, Twice, this chilling ballad flew somewhat under the radar. Even for myself, an avid Foals fan, I might never have heard it if a friend hadn’t showed me.

The songs’ melody moves through shimmering tender vocals to explosive, reverb enhanced bursts. It is backed only by an organ, which leads to Yannis Philippakis’ voice sounding as graceful as it ever has done.

The result is a hauntingly beautiful track that, even 2 and half years on, I still can’t stop listening to. It’s fantastic that it isn’t part of an album either. Instead of getting lost amongst the chaos of What Went Down and Snake Oil, it stands alone as a piece of art. The sound of Yannis roaring out the words “No I’ll never sleep again” will be ingrained in my mind forever.

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