“Inhaler” by Foals

"Inhaler" was Foals' opening salvo for Holy Fire, their third album, arriving in the UK in November 2012 on Transgressive with a video by their frequent collaborator Dave Ma featuring artwork by Tinhead. Flood and Alan Moulder produced and mixed it, Catherine Marks recorded it, and the writing credit is split five ways: Yannis Philippakis, who sings and plays electric guitar alongside Jimmy Smith, bassist Walter Gervers, keyboardist Edwin Congreave and drummer Jack Bevan, with Gervers and Congreave on backing vocals and Ric Elsworth adding percussion.

The NME Awards named it the best track of 2012 in February 2013, and it gave Foals their first spot on any American singles chart, climbing to 20 on Billboard's Alternative Songs list early that year before crossing over to hard rock radio and peaking at 29 on Mainstream Rock.

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