After taking a long, six-year hiatus to reevaluate his life and get things in order, Mark Foster is back in music, performing for the fans alongside keyboardist Isom Innis, and putting out the band's first new record in seven years, Paradise State of Mind.

To remind people who they are and to give their biggest supporters the first taste of the new goodness, they have been playing small gigs, appearing on TV, and even doing DJ sets.

Most recently FTP performed at the cozy Bowery Ballroom and live debuted seven tunes.

After the Sacred Hearts Club World Tour that ran from 2017-2018, Foster, who had long stretches of sobriety and patches excess, found himself in a tailspin. That is not uncommon among performers who experience very high highs while on tour with thousands of people singing your songs back to you, the press fawning, doors opening where ever you go, and a backstage spread with all your favorite things.

But then when you come back to your own bed, you're met with a harsh reality of mundane activity and the minutiae of "normal" life. Bruce Springsteen once said how on tour everything is on a schedule, you're told were to be, but then you come home and no one slides a piece of paper under your door with the day's agenda.

You're on your own and one could be a tad unprepared.

"When I got home, the wheels came off and I had a pretty gnarly three-week bender leading into my birthday and catching up with all my friends," Foster told SPIN recently.

"Luckily, my team and my friends intervened and helped me get out of that situation and go away for a little bit and get healthy. I got back by the skin of my teeth. I was so relieved because I was in a pattern that needed to be interrupted and I wasn’t able to get out of it myself."

Thanks to his team and friends, the assistance and love paid off because now the Grammy-nominated Angelenos are back at it.

At the Bowery Ballroom on Manhattan's Delancey St. (which is about a 10-minute walk to where CBGB's used to be), FTP returned that love to 550 lucky people who got to hear the live debut of "Chasing Low Vibrations," "Feed Me," "Glitchzig," "Lost in Space," "See You in the Afterlife," "Sometimes I Wanna Be Bad," and "Take Me Back."

The three of the first four tunes in the set were from the new album beginning with the funky & freaky "Feed Me."

After a long mental break and a new album, I approve of making the set top-heavy with fresh material. Fans are happy to see you. They're looking at the lights and the clothes and the haircuts.

Give them that new stuff as they're sipping on their beers at their coldest.

The second live debut was for "Lost In Space" which has layers and layers of vocal effects, reverb, Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers, background singers, and a delightful duo on strings.

When they performed it the next night on the Tonight Show, you can get a better feel of how full and rich it all sounds put together.

It's a delightful maturation of the pop band who has one foot in many of the elements of the disco era and another in modern music you can dance to.

If that wasn't enough for the New Yorkers, the band also performed "Imagination" for the first time in front of a proper crowd.

The only other time they'd played the track from the Pick U Up EP was at a private gig on November 13, 2020.

So I'll call it 7 1/2 live debuts that night, but you can call it what you want.

Foster the People haven't really announced a globe-trotting world tour just yet.

They come back to their home of Los Angeles to perform a gig at the equally tiny, Roxy in West Hollywood. The Roxy is where Dogstar performed for the first time last year after 23-year break.

The first time FTP played there was back in 2011, where they seem to have had a short set due to be opening for Friendly Fires.

How cool would it be if they opened with Warrant tonight on the Sunset Strip like they did 13 years ago. They played the hell out of that tune in '11 and '12 but it fell off the set quickly as new material was produced.

After that they fly of to do some DJ sets in the UK, then a gig in San Francisco next month and a pair of appearances at ACL in ATX.

Get your tickets on FTP's website.