Foster the People: Torches X (2LP, 10th anniversary, deluxe edition, 140g, orange vinyl) [COLUMBIA]

Why you'll love it

Torches X adds a disc of bonus songs and remixes to the original album, on orange vinyl in a gatefold jacket with a lyrics insert. Torches peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, went platinum in Canada and the US, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album.

This edition

• 2LP set
• Orange vinyl
• 140g vinyl
• 10th anniversary deluxe edition
• Gatefold jacket
• Lyrics and credits insert
• Stereo mix
• Pressed in the EU

About the album

Mark Foster wrote "Pumped Up Kicks" while working as a jingle writer at Mophonics in Venice, California. The song went viral in 2010, landed the band a South by Southwest booking and a deal with Columbia imprint Startime International, and the plan from there was simple: stop everything, skip the marketing and touring, and make an album that could stand next to it.

From July to September 2010 they did exactly that, recording across Los Angeles and London. Paul Epworth co-wrote "Call It What You Want" and "Life on the Nickel," "Helena Beat" and "Don't Stop (Color on the Walls)" bounce along on bright synths, and "Houdini" later turned up on the SSX soundtrack. The deluxe disc adds "Broken Jaw," "Love," "Ruby," "Chin Music for the Unsuspecting Hero" and "Downtown," then remixes by The Knocks, RAC and Treasure Fingers and Gus Dapperton's own take on "Pumped Up Kicks."

Torches went to No. 1 in Australia and gave the band five singles, all of them on the first disc here. Ten years on, that whistled hook still follows people out of the shop and halfway down Queen Street.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Startime International / Columbia (cat# 19439928091), a reissue of the 2011 album.