Foals are at their peak and they launch into 2016 with a burst of activity – and that includes a triumphant return show at the A! Following their BBC Music Award nomination in 2015, the band has launched their new single Birch Tree.Foalsis now bigger than ever before.The trajectory of these five Oxford perfectionists, whose work has been described as “math rock”, is as rich as it is complex. Since the eloquent Antidotes in 2008, Yannis Philippakis and his mates have never ceased surprising—they seem to have made a career of only taking the road less travelled. Foals are one of the best live bands in the UK, generating euphoric melodies—hits and experiments—without ever having gotten into a comfort zone.