'Paradise State Of Mind' review: Foster the People delight and frighten with new album

Foster the People. Photo: Atlantic Records

When you put on Foster the People's new album and you're happily bopping along to the infectious funk-disco beat of the first track, you might hardly notice the growing sense of dread in the lyrics, as dark as the music is silly-light. Welcome back, Mark Foster.

"My friends were going out last night and I still haven't heard from them," he sings in See You in the Afterlife, a tune that has scary newspaper headlines, an empty Colosseum and even a reference to the war in Ukraine. It's like we've all been hypnotised.