Antidotes
by Foals

Album
Antidotes by Foals
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-03-24
Overall rank: 1,858th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 289 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (22nd)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (299th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,858th)

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Foals bestography

Antidotes is ranked 2nd best out of 8 albums by Foals on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Foals is Total Life Forever which is ranked number 1303 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,323.

Foals album bestography « Higher ranked (1,303rd)
Total Life Forever This album (1,858th)
Antidotes Lower ranked (1,883rd) »
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Antidotes rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,858th | 2000s rank: 299th | 2008 rank: 22nd  Overall chart history
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Antidotes ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 289 votes)
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 !		08/15/2026 10:31 Purplepash  Ratings distribution  5,00175/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.


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Antidotes forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 08/18/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5408): By Vasco
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From 01/09/2020 16:47 | #246631 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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
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80/100
From 12/31/2014 14:41 | #130523 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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
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From 11/03/2014 19:38 | #126107 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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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From 11/17/2014 23:13 | #127277 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Great Debut, close to the best album of 2008 in my opinion
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From 01/09/2022 11:56 | #278923 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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.
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