​Quick facts… Back in 2009, Mark Foster, Jacob "Cubbie” Fink and Mark Pontius formed the band Foster The People in Los Angeles. Loosely categorised as an American indie pop band, the group's music is described as melodic dance-infused pop and rock.

Foster founded the band after spending several years in Los Angeles as a struggling musician and working as a commercial jingle writer. After releasing their debut album Torches in 2011, the song Pumped Up Kicks became a massive hit reaching number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and number three on the Billboard Hot 100.

Two Grammy Award nominations followed and now the band is back with the follow-up album called Supermodel. So far the songs Coming of Age, Best Friend and Pseudologia Fantastica have been released internationally with Coming of Age reaching Number 4 on the US Alternative Chart. 

Best tracks… Nevermind, Pseudologia Fantastica, Best Friend and The Truth.

What others have to say… Supermodel is mostly an introspective rock album — a dimmed-down Torches told from the perspective of a guy who's toured himself ragged and emerged with newfound perspective. Foster is lost and looking for something to believe in, but he's not so far gone that he's forgotten what got him here. With Supermodel, his goal is not to make you like him, but rather to give you a sense of what it's like to be him. He pulls it off, and he throws in plenty of hooks along the way. www.billboard.com

What we have to say… There is not one weak song and the band deserves to be way more successful commercially than they are. Foster The People truly rates as one of our favourite bands at the moment and the new album firmly establishes them as one of the freshest sounds around.

It makes us wanna… “…turn up the volume while looking for shapes in the clouds…”

In their own words… In an interview with Interview Magazine in 2013, Mark Foster was asked about the sound of the album before it was released…  “Yeah, every song I write begins with drums, but I felt like I had exhausted all of my drums sounds. I've always used everyone else's sounds, so going into this record, I said, let's make our own sounds, let's get creative, throw this against the wall and see what happens, and so far it's completely exceeded my expectations. I think when this record comes out, it's going to have the freshest-sounding drums of any record of 2013. I'm going to take more liberties with space, space in the music itself. 

"With Torches, I wanted to make a great pop record, I wanted every song to be exciting, not to have too much space, no long pieces of music without vocals, I kind of wanted to write the perfect pop album. And now, I want to make something with grit. Really push myself artistically as a writer, and not feel like I have to smash it out of the park with some massive vocal hook. And the band feels the same. Now we've been together for over two years, and we played 140 shows last year. So we now gel as a band, unlike the first record, and I think it's going to be an exciting process to really be able to collaborate.”

Score… Turn the volume up to 8.5