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34RIAA Diamondcertified multiplatinum group Foster The People make their eagerly anticipated Atlantic Records debut with todays premiere of their readyforsummer single, Lost In Space, available now. The 3x GRAMMY Awardnominated bands first new release in over three years, Lost In Space, is produced by lead singer, songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Mark Foster and coproduced by bandmate Isom Innis.Lost In Space heralds the arrival of Foster The Peoples long awaited fourth studio album, Paradise State of Mind, arriving August 16.3434The record started as a case study of the late Seventies crossover between disco, funk, gospel, jazz, and all those sounds. 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,3434 says Mark Foster.3434I 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 we039re in now, with the giant recession in the Seventies, the political turmoil postVietnam, and other major tensions. But then you see these expressions of joy happening through music, and I started thinking about joy as an act of defiance.3434The albums artwork, commissioned by Foster, was originally an oil painting on panel, created by renowned Brooklyn based artist, Matt Hansel. It captures the essence of different spaces in the mind. Each space represents its current state and leads to another that may have a totally different feeling.34
