Foals - Spanish Sahara by Sub Pop published on 2010-04-30T00:11:12Z In April of 2008, we at Sub Pop Records had the good fortune to release the US version of Antidotes, the debut album by Oxford, UK quintet Foals. 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.” Released: June 15, 2010 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 Comment by <33 LIFE IS STRANGE >>>> 2023-05-09T04:13:02Z Comment by Sebastian Lezs ke sad 2019-06-09T13:57:06Z Comment by Josspoop goose bumps incoming 2016-03-13T12:12:08Z Comment by Josspoop whatever that synthy kinda stuff in the background is - it's beautiful 2016-03-13T12:11:30Z Comment by Josspoop like the subtle kick 2016-03-13T12:08:46Z Comment by Avox man thats beatiful! 2015-10-26T20:04:41Z Comment by sadgurl_shxt goosebumps throughout my body 2014-08-12T11:16:38Z Comment by Marciaana Hartley good Job ... I love it <3 2013-11-02T16:04:52Z Comment by Nthn Wonderful ! 2010-11-24T19:55:22Z Comment by blissedsparky This part is just hauntingly beautiful 2010-10-05T13:32:56Z Comment by martinherrmann omg the next minute is so electrifying! it goes through you 2010-07-09T10:53:47Z Comment by bent0ne How genuine --human things how 2010-05-31T23:36:28Z Comment by caballo woooooooooow!! 2010-04-30T12:00:50Z Comment by Skwirl/Shīdo absolutely fantastic tune. 2010-04-30T00:25:15Z Comment by Skwirl/Shīdo this is amazingly clear! fresh and full of luscious soft late afternoon sunshine. this is a really lovely simple and fully realized song. gorgeously produced and played! :) 2010-04-30T00:24:03Z