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Foster the People are a genre-defying indie-pop-rock band from Los Angeles. The group started out as a pet project for Mark Foster, a young jingle writer employed by Morphonics, a studio specialising in music for the advertising industry. Foster had formed the band and was in the process of preparing material for a forthcoming record when when he recorded the track 'Pumped Up Kicks' in a single five-hour recording session. At the time Foster was wrestling with the idea of spending a day on the beach or doing some work in the studio: "I was a block away from the beach, and it was ...