Antidotes
by Foals

Antidotes by Foals
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-03-24
Overall rank: 2,002nd   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 286 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (24th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (327th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,002nd)

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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 1293 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,323.

Foals album bestography « Higher ranked (1,850th)
Holy Fire
This album (2,002nd)
Antidotes
Lower ranked (2,098th) »
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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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Antidotes rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,002nd | 2000s rank: 327th | 2008 rank: 24th

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Antidotes ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 286 votes)
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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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85/100
From 11/28/2024 03:15 | #306316
Very enjoyable album, a lot of character here. It sounds a bit like King Crimson's 80s output.
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65/100
From 01/09/2022 11:56 | #278923
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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95/100
From 01/09/2020 16:47 | #246631
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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70/100
From 03/03/2018 16:36 | #210008
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
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80/100
From 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.

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80/100
From 11/17/2014 23:13 | #127277
Great Debut, close to the best album of 2008 in my opinion
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