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Jeff Buckley - Forget Her

In April of 2008, we at Sub Pop Records had the good fortune to release the US version of Antidotes, the debut album by Oxford, UK quintet Foals. Antidotes was a special album. Two years on from that impressive introduction, a choice has been made–-rather than contort Antidotes’ lithesome guitars into ever more elaborate patterns, Total Life Forever is the sound of a band settling into and surveying the decay of old protocols. With this new album, Foals strip their sound back and turn themselves inside out searching for that invisible human thing. The result is an album as persuasive emotionally as Antidotes  was physically. Whereas that album constantly reinforced its own presence by filling the air with yelping and polyrhythm, tracks on Total Life Forever such as disarming opener “Blue Blood,” “2 Trees” and the astonishing “Black Gold” are happier to leave gaps for the listener to explore in mind’s ear and eye. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ (“The House of Supreme Mathematics”) and recorded in Gothenburg with former Clor man Luke Smith, Total Life Forever finds Foals singing rather than shouting, emotional as well as functional. The band’s soul-search reveals new antidotes found in infinite, internal spaces rather than carved violently upon the air–-Total Life Forever feels more the work of artists than artisans. It’s a triumph that they’ve managed to remain a band of progress and propulsion while investigating that vast, dark space lurking inside themselves-–that gap between ribs where “nature, or god or whatever you wanna call it, will come in.”

Released: June 15, 2010 


   1. Blue Blood
   2. Miami
   3. Total Life Forever
   4. Black Gold
   5. Spanish Sahara
   6. This Orient
   7. Fugue
   8. After Glow
   9. Alabaster
  10. 2 Trees
  11. What Remains



Total Life Forever

Spanish Sahara

Foals - Spanish Sahara

Recorded, mixed and mastered at 4D Sounds.
Vocals recorded at Oceanic Studios.

TesseracT - Dream Brother (Jeff Buckley Cover)

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An Awesome Wave

Something Good

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-IX)

From Andrew Bird's forthcoming Hands Of Glory, a musical companion to Break It Yourself, available October 30th via Mom+Pop. 

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Upcoming Andrew Bird Tour Dates:

10-10 Orlando, FL - House of Blues * 
10-12 Houston, TX - House of Blues * 
10-13 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits 
11-06 Paris, France - Les Inrocks 
11-08 London, England - Roundhouse 
11-10 Lisbon, Portugal - Aula Magna 
11-11 Cartagena, Spain - Cartagena Jazz Festival 
11-12 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo 
11-14 Milan, Italy - Magazzini Generali 
11-16 Enschede, Netherlands - Crossing Border Festival - Wilmink Theatre 
11-17 The Hague, Netherlands - Crossing Border Festival -- The Royal 
11-19 Copenhagen, Denmark - Amager Bio

* with Here We Go Magic

If I Needed You

Jake Bugg

Broken

From their upcoming self-titled album, available everywhere August 6. Pre-order now at http://smarturl.it/thecivilwars

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