Foster The People recently dropped “Lost In Space” from their newly announced album, Paradise State of Mind.

Paradise State of Mind, the band’s long-awaited fourth studio album and first in seven years, will drop on August 16 via Atlantic Records. The album is a follow-up to 2017’s Sacred Hearts Club and 2021’s Torches X, a deluxe edition of their debut album Torches.

“Lost In Space” was co-produced by lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Foster and bandmate Isom Innis.

“The record started as a case study of the late seventies crossover between disco, funk, gospel, jazz, and all those sounds,” Foster said: “It was such a beautiful moment in time, when these different styles of music were cross-referencing each other – artists like Nile Rogers and Chic, the Tom Tom Club and Giorgio Moroder.”

“I wanted to dive into that and figure out what they were doing. I was also thinking about how that era has musical and social parallels to the time that we’re in now, with the giant recession in the seventies, the political turmoil post-Vietnam, and other major tensions,” he continued. “But then you see these expressions of joy happening through music, and I started thinking about joy as an act of defiance.”

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