Holy Fire (studio album)
by Foals
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Holy Fire 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 1287 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,338.
(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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Holy Fire 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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| ! | 08/21/2025 08:10 |  nextorgd | 1,112 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2025 23:34 | wizardalien | 760 | 47/100 |
| ! | 05/21/2025 02:12 |  EyeKanFly | 8,092 | 65/100 |
| ! | 03/13/2025 14:44 | Skerns | 4,972 | 80/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2025 00:02 | jnmayles | 2,025 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.
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As good as this album's predecessors (Antidotes and Total Life Forever) are, Holy Fire marked a slight change in Foals to become a little heavier. Tracks like Providence and Inhaler would have been out of place on the previous two albums, but fit perfectly on this - my favourite Foals album. But it's not just a heavy rock album - there is plenty of diversity, with quieter tracks like Late Night and the final track Moon. A very consistent album with no real weak tracks. My highlights are Inhaler, My Number and Everytime.
RoundTheBend 07/01/2016 04:46 | #170247
Inhaler is a fantastic song. These ideas had great potential, but they didn't realize them. It stayed in an almost mediocre/average area for most of the record.
bojolpif71 02/01/2015 09:59 | #133533
Du bon et du moins bon sur cet album mais l'impression générale est bonne. Morceau préféré Inhaler.
Matteo92 12/31/2014 14:38 | #130522
To be honest I don't understand the hate for this album. I don't rate it better than the first 2 (especially the first one by Foals), but still I love some of the tracks, like Inhaler and Late Night.
7+/10
I really dug the single "My Number", but the rest of the album doesn't hold up as well. And I think relative to the potential Foals had shown, this album doesn't really sound special, more like all the rest.
quincytejani 12/20/2013 17:29 | #98212
Favourite Foals album so far
paladisiac 12/20/2013 16:30 | #98186
I'm guilty, your honor. After many years of countless radiohead clones copied themselves by numerous coldplay and muse wannabes like keane and the magic numbers (and that was 8 years ago!), i swore off further generations of groups striving for some leaf off the grand radiohead tree. Cheap knockoffs still are born today. As unbelievable as i find it, and as long as foals has been around, i shouldn't be accusing them of mimicking radiohead like i am nor can i keep from liking this album. It's really a fine album with soaring-yet-subdued choruses and a full wall of guitar to flush out the sound. Ironically, if it weren't for the lead singer's 4th generation eddie vedder -like grungy groany, low register vocals, i'd like this even more.
Don't care for the album too much. Not bad, not great. Some nice songs, but the majority of the songs are just slightly (above) average.
rafaellaxer 10/26/2013 16:52 | #89291
Best album from Foals, great from start to finish. Even a couple of weaker tracks as Stepson and Everytime don't really spoil it because the other are just awesome. Inhaler, My Number and Providence are powerful songs, Late Night, Milk & Black Spiders and Moon are really beautiful ones. And Prelude is a great opener as well. My favourite album of 2013.
Good album! i like the song My number
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