2 Foals LPs Antidotes Total Life Forever Sub Pop SEALED

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Lot of 2 Foals LPs: Antidotes and Total Life Forever

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1. Antidotes on Sub Pop Records (SP775)

Track listing 1. French Open, The
2. Cassius
3. Red Socks Pugie
4. Olympic Airways
5. Electric Bloom

Side 2

6. Balloons
7. Heavy Water
8. Two Steps Twice
9. Big Big Love (Fig. 2)
10. Like Swimming
11. Tron

Details Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album notes Issued in the U.S. on the Sub Pop label during spring 2008, ANTIDOTES finds the Oxford, England-based dance-punk outfit Foals kicking like its namesake. Although the album is the U.K. band's debut, it sounds like the work of a more seasoned act, with the ensemble's technical skill echoing math-rock heroes Battles, while most blatantly nodding to the Rapture, particularly in the strained yelp of frontman Yannis Philippakis (see the staccato-spiked "Cassius").

Editorial reviews Ranked #4 in Clash's The 40 Best Albums of 2008 -- [They] released debut album ANTIDOTES with caustic fervor and toured the album with improvised aplomb.
Clash  

4 stars out of 5 -- ANTIDOTES' rampant adrenalin uproar depends on crazy rhythm, an intensity overload and hurl-yourself-around physicality.
Mojo  

3 stars out of 5 -- Chirruping guitars interlock with the grunt and grind of horns, while the percussive architecture is always infectious.
Q  

4 stars out of 5 -- [T]hey've ended up with a set of terrific songs. 'Red Sock Pugie', 'Olympic Airways' and 'Electric Bloom' are handsome indie numbers with goosebump choruses garnished with exotic rhythms.
Uncut  

3.5 stars out of 5 -- Foals kick out live-band post-punk that's as carefully micromanaged as techno tracks...
Spin  

3.5 stars out of 5 -- On 'Electric Bloom,' the combination is magic: Interlocking guitars and glints of electro-metallic percussion swarm around intimations of disaster...
Rolling Stone  

CMJ [I]t is shot through with sexy Yankee disco sizzle and experimental optimism.


2. Total Life Forever on Sub Pop records (SP875)

Antidotes was a special album. Two years on from that impressive introduction, a choice has been made–-rather than contort Antidotes’ lithesome guitars into ever more elaborate patterns, Total Life Forever is the sound of a band settling into and surveying the decay of old protocols. With this new album, Foals strip their sound back and turn themselves inside out searching for that invisible human thing. The result is an album as persuasive emotionally as Antidotes was physically. Whereas that album constantly reinforced its own presence by filling the air with yelping and polyrhythm, tracks on Total Life Forever such as disarming opener “Blue Blood,” “2 Trees” and the astonishing “Black Gold” are happier to leave gaps for the listener to explore in mind’s ear and eye. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ (“The House of Supreme Mathematics”) and recorded in Gothenburg with former Clor man Luke Smith, Total Life Forever finds Foals singing rather than shouting, emotional as well as functional. The band’s soul-search reveals new antidotes found in infinite, internal spaces rather than carved violently upon the air–-Total Life Forever feels more the work of artists than artisans. It’s a triumph that they’ve managed to remain a band of progress and propulsion while investigating that vast, dark space lurking inside themselves-–that gap between ribs where “nature, or god or whatever you wanna call it, will come in.”

This is a double LP!

1. Blue Blood
2. Miami
3. Total Life Forever
4. Black Gold
5. Spanish Sahara
6. This Orient
7. Fugue
8. After Glow
9. Alabaster
10. 2 Trees
11. What Remains

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