Total Life Forever
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| Studio album by Foals | ||||
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Publication |
May 10, 2010 |
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| Label (s) | Transgressive Records, Sub Pop | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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Luke Smith |
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Studio (s) |
Svenska Grammofon Studio, Gothenburg |
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Total Life Forever is the second studio album by the English indie rock band Foals .
It is the successor to the album Antidotes and was released on May 10, 2010 on the British label Transgressive Records .
Recordings
Various pieces from the album were presented live in the summer of 2009. It was recorded with producer Luke Smith in Svenska Grammofon Studio in Sweden Gothenburg . The title of the album was unveiled on February 24, 2010.
Reviews
The album received mostly positive reviews. In particular, the development compared to the previous album is often praised.
Adrian Meyer from laut.de awards 5 out of 5 points and says: Foals deliver a disc with their second album that testifies to an enormous maturation process. They have not completely given up their rebelliousness that dominated "Antidotes" on "Total Life Forever". Rather, the concentrated pressure at the time has expanded to an elaborate breadth. "Total Life Forever" inspires with the first listening pass - and is a grower at the same time.
Björn Bauermeister rates the album on tonspion.de with 5 out of 6 stars and judges: The Foals act less theoretically today, care more about the expression and the moment, are less hectic than rather contemplative in their cosmos .
The trick here is to locate a beating heart, the missing Z to their rigorous X and Y axes, without losing sight of what made them so exciting in the first place , so Alex Denney for bbc.co.uk.
On3.de, Total Life Forever is album of the week, the review says: If the music industry doesn't go completely down the drain, then the Foals could really become a really big number.
In the criticism on intro.de, the author judges: The framework of the music [has] been loosened in many places, the complexities of the band's math-rock past are softened by elegiac textures, there is less hectic in the structures, less cryptic in the content .
The NME judges It is nervous, intense and quite brilliant. and awards 8 out of 10 possible points.
Track list
- Blue Blood - 05:17
- Miami - 03:42
- Total Life Forever - 3:18 am
- Black Gold - 06:26
- Spanish Sahara - 06:50
- This Orient - 04:05
- Fugue - 00:49
- After Glow - 06:09
- Alabaster - 4:00 am
- 2 Trees - 05:11
- What Remains - 04:37
Bonus CD
A limited edition of the album was also released, which includes an additional bonus CD with the following titles:
- Bloo Blood - 01:00
- Bloo Blood 2 - 00:46
- TLF - 00:46
- TLF 2 - 01:00
- TLF 3 - 01:31
- TLF 4 - 01:02
- TLF 5 - 01:26
- Black Gold // - 02:53
- Black Gold 2 - 08:30
- Spanish Sahara (Sonar) - 01:20
- ---- - 00:36
- Alabaster - 1:31
- Two Trees - 00:50
- Two Trees 2 - 01:37
- Remains - 1:13
Single releases
- Spanish Sahara (April 17, 2010)
- This Orient (May 3, 2010)
- Miami (July 4th 2010)
- Spanish Sahara (Re-Release)
- Blue Blood (November 8, 2010) (download only)
successes
Total Life Forever entered numerous European charts. In July 2010 the album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize . The single This Orient entered the UK singles chart at number 97 for a week, while the single Miami made it to number 127.
| Best chart position | |||||||
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| GER | CH | UK | BEL | FRA | GRE | IRL | US Heatseekers Albums |
| 48 | 62 | 8th | 72 | 38 | 21st | 25th | 35 |
Other contributors
- Mixed by Alan Moulder
- Mastered by Stephen Marcussen
- Recording and programming: Ferg Peterkin
- Blue Blood recorded and produced by Mike Crossey
- Additional vocals: Caroline Wickberg
- Cover design: Big Active & Foals
- Photos: Steve Gullick, Dave Ma
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review on laut.de
- ↑ Review on tonspion.de
- ↑ Review on bbc.co.uk (engl.)
- ↑ Review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on on3.de
- ↑ Review on nme.com (Engl.)
