Total Life Forever
by Foals

Album Rating: 82.20
(822/10)

1.Blue Blood. 85
2.Miami. 83
3.Total Life Forever. 76
4.Black Gold. 74
5.Spanish Sahara. 100
6.This Orient. 84
7.Fugue. N/a
8.After Glow. 83
9.Alabaster. 84
10.2 Trees. 71
11.What Remains. 82

One of my favourite bands. Some incredible instrumentals on this album. Foals' debut album Antidotes was great, but Total Life Forever took them to a new level. Black Gold and Blue Blood are standouts, but it is a very consistent album. Shout out to this Orient and 2 Trees which fly under the radar but are excellent. Great lyric on Black Gold - "The future is not what it used to be".

This albums needs some love, no reviews in years. Still sounds unbelievable.

From jeremih724 01/08/2015 02:31 | #131025

fun, energetic, and intricate. the first half is very catchy and loaded with great instrumentation, and the second half serves as a mellower comedown. more mature than antidotes and with far better songwriting than holy fire, in my opinion, this is their best work

From Matteo92 12/31/2014 14:44 | #130524

Another beautiful album. The first 6 tracks, especially Spanish Sahara that I deem one of the best tracks of the 2010's, are all, one by one, catchy and beautiful. Total Life Forever reminds me of lots of different genres and I love it. As I said though, the first 6 tracks are all one better than the one before, but the last 5 ones are really, really useless.

7,5/10, would have been an 8,5 (!) though.

Suffers from the "Oracular Spectacular Syndrome". The first six tracks are amazing, the rest of the album is completely meh. Kinda disappointing, because if the rest were up to par, the album would easily rank among my favorites ever. Still a great album, all things considered, not many albums have the quality of those first 6 tracks

Best tracks: This Orient, Spanish Sahara, Total Life Forever

One of those albums that I loved at the time and has stuck with me ever since. The best that Foals have to offer to date.

From jhuik 10/26/2012 20:15 | #53496

I think this is still moving up my list as time goes on. Not only is it a solid, consistent album, you are starting to see its influence on others. There's an 80s-ish feel to this maybe but it's also truly contemporary. Nary a bad track.

Indie rock with a radiohead meets killers vibe

From covecove 03/15/2011 23:35 | #19209

A notable evolution from their debut album which was really monotonous, the more eclectic tracks still retain that recognizable beat making it a tremendous step forward.