Win Tickets to See Foster the People at the Brooklyn Paramount
RIAA Multi-Platinum and Diamond-certified group Foster The People have announced their North American headline “Paradise State of Mind Tour” with special guest Good Neighbours. The 23-city run, produced by Live Nation, gets underway January of 2025. General on-sales follow on Friday, October 18th at 10:00 am (local). For complete details including presale registration and ticket information, please visit www.fosterthepeople.com/tour. You can enter to win tickets now below!
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“It’s been seven years since 2017’s album Sacred Hearts Club and Foster and his bandmates haven’t lost a step, making thoughtful, first-rate pop for a jangled, insecure era with the 11-track Paradise State of Mind.” – ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The eagerly awaited tour celebrates the recent arrival of Foster The People’s acclaimed new album, Paradise State of Mind, available now via Atlantic Records HERE. Produced by Foster The People lead singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Mark Foster and bandmate Isom Innis with contributions from Paul Epworth, Jack Peñate, Chrome Sparks, and Asa Taccone at studios in London and Los Angeles (including East West Studios’ famed Studio Three, the room where The Beach Boys recorded Pet Sounds), the album is highlighted by such acclaimed tracks as “Chasing Low Vibrations,” “Take Me Back” and the cosmically catchy first single, “Lost In Space.”
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Hailed by Consequence for “(invoking) moments of psychedelia, the space age, the anthemic of the ’80s, and dramatic disco strings,” the latter track arrived alongside an official music video directed by award-winning filmmaker Rupert Höller and currently boasting over 1.5 million views HERE. The band also recently released the “Lost in Space (PNAU Remix).” The Remix is out everywhere now HERE.
“I think the trickiest part about this record was trying to be authentic about what had been going on with me,” says Mark Foster, “without writing something super dark and without glossing over it, either. Because, to me, it was really important that hope remain at the core of this whole thing. People need hope. I need hope. And when I think about what hope is – it’s having the courage to walk towards something that you think can be better, while fully acknowledging the darkness and reality around you. That was the goal, walking into this album, which was actually really tricky – to make something that rang true to what was on my mind, but that had this much groove and that would be fun to dance to. You know, to me, they’re like Trojan Horses, the message is hiding in the melody.”
Paradise State of Mind – which made a top 10 debut on Billboard’s “Top Albums Sales” chart upon its August release – has been met by critical applause around the world. Uncut praised the album for “evoking Prince and Daft Punk,” while CLASH simply raved, “Foster the People have created a record that, despite its challenging and at times dark journey is one of optimism and insight with a groove that will make you want to dance just like their mega hit single ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ did in 2010… Paradise State of Mind is a coming-of-age record, a band lyrically at the peak of the powers who will take you somewhere to ponder and dance in another dimension.” “With the influx of diverse instrumentation and delightfully wacky songwriting/production choices, Paradise State of Mind may actually be (Foster The People’s) most accomplished album to-date,” wrote Sputnikmusic, “regardless, it’s definitely their most entertaining.” “(Paradise State of Mind) sounds like the backing track for the best space opera ever written,” declared Far Out. “Heavily inspired by disco, the catchy choruses and easy-to-dance-to instrumentation evoke the same feelings that initially helped us fall in love with Foster the People… The band is back, and the album is paradise.”
Foster The People continue to celebrate Paradise State of Mind with a top-billed appearance at Austin, TX’s Austin City Limits Music Festival, both last weekend Friday, October 4th and this Friday, October 11. Foster The People first marked the album’s arrival this summer with an intimate pair of sold-out live dates at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom and Los Angeles, CA’s The Roxy Theatre as well as an electrifying performance of “Lost In Space” on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (streaming HERE).
