Antidotes
by Foals
Foals bestography
Antidotes is ranked 3rd best out of 8 albums by Foals on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Foals is Total Life Forever which is ranked number 1300 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,313.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Antidotes track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/12/2026 03:24 | thepardunk | 2,572 | 69/100 | |
| 12/29/2025 17:36 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 | |
| 12/29/2025 12:20 | Scrabbler | 262 | 77/100 | |
| 12/07/2025 19:01 | Araldo | 1,471 | 80/100 | |
| 09/03/2025 20:38 | araidernomore | 438 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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talinhosgameplay 11/28/2024 03:15 | #306316
Very enjoyable album, a lot of character here. It sounds a bit like King Crimson's 80s output.
Brilliant album. Only their 5th best in my opinion which shows how great they are! Very different in sound to all of their other work, but a more-than-worthy part of their excellent discography so far. My highlights are Heavy Water, Tron, Balloons and Olympic Airways. Big Big Love and Like Swimming are the weakest tracks.
Infectious, immediate and relentless math rock greatness. Foals' debut is just filled with this unrestrained momentum bursting through every song. I may be biased because I've listened to it so much, but there isn't a skippable track on this album. Quite possibly my favorite math rock record ever.
Favorite tracks: Olympic Airways, Balloons, Hummer, Cassius
The instrumentation (especially the guitars) do a great job of creating an atmosphere, but I can't find any appeal in these vocals. Also, "Like Swimming" is just the intro to Sweet Jane by TVU
Matteo92 12/31/2014 14:41 | #130523
Their best album, even though, as Total Life Forever, suffers the last tracks, 10 tracks would have been enough. I like the fast tunes, especially in Cassius and Balloons, and Olimpic Airways is anyways a good track even if different form the rest of the album.
8/10
Great Debut, close to the best album of 2008 in my opinion
Love this album, but it's significantly improved with the bonus disc of early singles and live stuff. Can imagine this one being a big influence in the years to come.
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RaineyWins 05/18/2010 23:03 | #11860
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