At long last, bring on the new year!  2016! Gotta be better than 2015, right?  After a cleansing hiatus (disclaimer: no colon was harmed), we’re back in the proverbial saddle with the critically-acclaimed Foals‘ pounding performance below on Colbert’s Late Show of  Mountain At My Gates off of their most recent album, What Went Down.  Make sure you hang in for the last 45-60 seconds of the performance when the band opens up those gates and gallops up Rock Mountain.  It was so good, Colbert let off one of his rare, trademarked hoots.

Foals’ album What Went Down has been appeared on a good number of Best Albums of 2015 lists (No. 1 on at least two lists), so check ’em out.

Mountains At My Gates:

“I see a mountain at my gates
I see it more and more each day
What I give, it takes away
Whether I go or when I stay

I see a mountain at my gates
I see it more and more each day
I see a fire out by the lake
I’ll drive my car without the brakes

I see a mountain in my way
It’s looming larger by the day
I see a darkness in my fate
I’ll drive my car without the brakes

[Chorus]
Oh, gimme some time
Show me the foothold from which I can climb
Yeah, when I feel low
You show me a signpost for where I should go

I see a mountain at my gates
I see it more and more each day
And my desire wears a dark dress
But each day, I see you less

[Chorus]

Through lanes and stone rows
Black granite, wind blows
Fire lake and far flame
Go now but come again
Dark clouds gather ’round
Will I run or stand my ground?

Oh, when I come to climb
Show me the mountain so far behind
Yeah, it’s farther away
Its shadow gets smaller day after day

Yeah, gimme my way
Gimme my love
Gimme my choice
You keep me coming around
Gimme my fate
Gimme my lungs
Gimme my voice
You keep me coming around
Gimme my lungs
Gimme my, gimme my, gimme my, gimme my
Gimme my, gimme my, gimme my, gimme my, gimme my way
Gimme my fate
Gimme my lungs
Gimme my choice
You keep me coming round”