Foals Like Danceable Rock And Andy Roddick

Foals, an energetic young band from Oxford, England, will make their North American recorded debut with Sub Pop's April 8 release of Antidotes.

The five-piece group are made up of four university dropouts — Yannis Philippakis (vocals, guitar), Edwin Congreave (keyboards), Walter Gervers (bass) and Jack Bevan (drums) — and guitarist Jimmy Smith, who completed a degree at the University Of Hull.

The group came together to make new dance music because they were bored of the records they heard at parties. They were also mutually obsessed with minimalist composer Steve Reich, guitars that sound like insects, German techno artists Monolake and Dettman/Klock, and American tennis player Andy Roddick, who's the subject of "The French Open."

Videos for Antidotes tracks "Cassius" and "Balloons" can be viewed on Foals' website.

The 11-track psychedelic pop record is already out in the U.K., and Foals have high hopes for North America.

"If you buy it then things will be good," Philippakis wrote in a March 23 blog entry on the band's site. "We’ll probably become actual real men rather than boys with whippets and nipples."

You can check for whippets and nipples when Foals will play Toronto's Lee's Palace on May 2 and Montreal's Cabaret Music Hall the next night.

Here are the tracks on Antidotes:

"The French Open"
"Cassius"
"Red Socks Pugie"
"Olympic Airways"
"Electric Bloom"
"Balloons"
"Heavy Water"
"Two Steps, Twice"
"Big Big Love (Fig. 2)"
"Like Swimming"
"Tron"