Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 Explained

Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1
Type:studio
Artist:Foals
Cover:Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost- Part 1.jpg
Released:8 March 2019
Recorded:2018
Studio:123 (London)
Genre:
Length:39:04
Label:
Producer:
  • Foals
  • Brett Shaw
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Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 is the fifth studio album by British rock band Foals. It was released on 8 March 2019 through Warner Bros. and Transgressive Records. The album is considered the first half of a two-piece project, being supplemented by their consecutive sixth studio album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2, later released on 18 October 2019.[5] This is their first album not to feature founding member and bassist Walter Gervers, as it was during the period of his amicable hiatus in 2018 (and eventual return to the group in 2023).[6]

An alternative version of the album was digitally released 15 September 2019 featuring a compilation of remixes/edits from the band's musical peers and contemporaries (including Metronomy, George FitzGerald, Alex Metric, Purple Disco Machine, etc.) within the realms of EDM, drum & bass, and house music.[7]

The album received a nomination for the prestigious Mercury Prize in July 2019.

Promotion and release

In January 2019, the band released a series of three short teaser clips featuring cinematic vignettes of the yet-to-be-released music video through their social media to announce the release dates of both parts of the album on 8 March 2019 and in autumn 2019 respectively.[8] The third teaser, featuring a group of politicians physically assaulting each other in parliament court and a quick strobed, stylised shot, the band announced the release of the first single "Exits", which debuted on DJ Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show on 21 January.[9] In promotion of "Exits", on 16 January, the band's marketing team created a scavenger hunt through social media by posting GPS coordinates along with photos of branded envelopes taped to various doorway exits of public transit and train stations around the world, such as New York, London, Paris, Mexico and Tokyo for fans to collect. The envelopes contained lyrics to "Exits" before its release.[10]

On 14 February, the band premiered the album's second single, "On The Luna" via Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show once again. Along with the release, was the announcement of a string of small, warm-up shows in the UK before the start of their 2019 North American & European spring/summer tour.[11] On 25 February, the album's third single "Sunday" premiered via Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio program.[12]

Album artwork and title

Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 features album artwork from Ecuadorian artist Vicente Muñoz. The image was created using infrared film, which captures infrared signal rather than visible light to contrast vegetation with the built environment. This image is part of his ongoing series, Sublimis, which explores the inevitable struggle of man against nature in the urban environment.[13]

The album's title is taken from the epigraph of the T. Michael Martin novel The End Games, which claims "Everything not saved will be lost" originated as a "Nintendo 'Quit Screen' message". Although Martin in fact adapted the quote from the Nintendo Wii 'Quit Screen' message: "Anything not saved will be lost".[14] The quote has become a cultural meme, featured on the front page of Reddit many times over, serving as the name and inspiration for several international art exhibits, and shared countless times across all major social media platforms.

Personnel

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

Critical reception

Accolades

PublicationListRank
Afisha Daily (Russia)The Best Foreign Albums of 2019
GQ (Russia)The 20 Best Albums of 2019

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2019)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[15] 164
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[16] 10

Year-end charts

Chart (2019)! scope="col"
Position
UK Albums (OCC)[17] 93

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foals: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Pt. 1 . Smith . Matthew . 12 March 2019 . No Ripcord . 16 March 2019.
  2. Web site: Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 . Foster . Jordan . 5 March 2019 . . 16 March 2019.
  3. Web site: Foals: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 (Warner Bros.) Review . Duncan . Conrad . 15 March 2019 . . 16 March 2019.
  4. Web site: Fantastic guitar-led rockers. Abdul Hadi. Eddino. 24 October 2019. The Straits Times. 7 November 2019.
  5. Web site: Martin . Montana . Foals Release First Single from Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost . . 22 January 2019 . 23 January 2019 . 23 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190123044052/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/01/foals-releases-first-single-from-everything-not-sa.html . dead .
  6. Web site: Monroe . Jazz . Foals Part Ways With Bassist Walter Gervers . . 5 January 2018 . 23 January 2019.
  7. Web site: Dance into the week with Foals' remix album of 'Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 1)'. September 16, 2019. NME. November 24, 2019.
  8. Web site: Foals to release new albums in 2019 [Updated]]. 14 January 2019. Consequence of Sound.
  9. Web site: Foals share snippet of new single 'Exits' and when album details will drop. Charlotte. Krol. 17 January 2019. NME.
  10. Web site: Foals share lyrics to new song 'Exits' as part of mysterious treasure hunt. Nick. Reilly. 16 January 2019. NME.
  11. Web site: Listen to Foals' zippy new single 'On The Luna'. Patrick. Clarke. February 14, 2019. NME. November 24, 2019.
  12. Hear Foals' Spacey, Pulsating New Song 'Sunday'. Ryan. Reed. . February 26, 2019. November 24, 2019.
  13. Web site: Muñoz . Vicente . Sublimis . Vicente Muñoz . 23 January 2019.
  14. Web site: I knew it sounded familiar . Reddit . 23 June 2019.
  15. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/448240/products/1312726/1/. ja:エヴリシング・ノット・セイヴド・ウィル・ビィ・ロスト・パート1 - フォールズ . ja. Oricon. 7 July 2022.
  16. Web site: Savaitės klausomiausi (TOP 100). Lithuanian. AGATA. 15 March 2019. 3 December 2019.
  17. Web site: End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2019. Official Charts Company. 4 January 2020.