Antidotes (album)
Occupation
- Vocals, guitar: Yannis Philippakis
- Guitar, Keyboard: Jimmy Smith
- Keyboard: Edwin Congreave
- Bass: Walter Gervers
- Drums: Jack Bevan
Antidotes is the debut album by the English indie rock band Foals.
The album was released in the U.S. on March 24, 2008 by Transgressive Records in the UK, on 28 March 2008 by Warner in Germany and on April 8, 2008 by Sub Pop.
Recordings
The album was recorded in summer 2007 in the Stay Gold Studios in Brooklyn, was producer Dave Sittek, guitarist and keyboardist of the band TV on the Radio. With the recordings, however, the band was not happy for them they sounded when the album at the Grand Canyon would have been included, so they remixed the album in London were once themselves Foals criticized by fans that the two songs Hummer and Mathletics, the the band had made known not to be found on the album were.
Reviews
The reviews Antidotes for fall generally positive to enthusiastic. In particular, the new sound of the band, which combines different styles of music, comes with the critics good. So it says on laut.de: What's on Foals sound so new hype or suspicious [ ... ]: It is almost ingenious game with different genres and sound quotes. A large corner electro, hits rock, punk hits on radio and so on. The music is catchy and danceable, the album gets a full five out of five stars rating.
On intro.de the album is called from front to back convincing debut, Plattentests.de can the hype that exists in the UK, do not fully understand, but the band still certifies a very good debut that much hope for the future leaves.
BBC Music committed himself: Believe the hype, because this year there will be no better British debut album.
More reviews: Allmusic (4/ 5), Drowned in Sound (9/ 10) Gigwise ( 4.5 / 5) The Guardian ( 3/5), NME (7/ 10), The Observer (4/ 5), Pitchfork Media ( 5.9 / 10), Rolling Stone ( 3.5 / 5 ), The Times (4/ 5), Uncut (4/ 5)
Achievements
Antidotes debuted at number three on the UK album charts and was a great success. In the first week, selling 25,000 copies good and the Gold status was obtained. In the Top Heatseekers charts in the U.S., the album reached 28th place, but the entry into the U.S. album charts did not succeed. In contrast, this was in Japan (# 80 ), France ( # 84), The Netherlands (# 99 ) and New Zealand (# 99). The Singles Balloons (# 39), Cassius (# 26) and Red Socks Pugie (# 89) were also able to get into the UK Singles Chart.
In the annual charts of various music magazines Antidotes section also performed well. The NME sees the album at number 5, the Music Express on 14th and 9th place Intro Readers of Spex chose the album 's seventh best of the year.
Title list
Bonus songs
In addition, the bonus songs Hummer and Mathletics also the title of Brazil is Here in the United States and Japan were attached, in Japan also. On a special tour edition were the songs Titan Arum, to find gold gold gold, Hummer and Mathletics. In addition, in the UK a special edition bonus CD was partially available, containing the following titles:
The live recordings are from a performance at the Liars Club in Nottingham on 10 February 2007.
Singles
- Balloons ( 10 December 2007)
- Cassius (10 March 2008)
- Red Socks Pugie (9 June 2008)
- Olympic Airways (6 October 2008)
Other contributors
- All songs written by Foals
- Recorded by Chris Moore
- Mixed by Mike Crossey
- Mastered by Guy Davie
- Recording engineer: Alan Labin, Chris Coady, John Valencia
- Singing with Red Socks Pugie: Katrina Ford
- Saxophone: Stuart Bogie
- Trombone: Aaron Johnson
- Trumpet: Eric Biondo
- Cover Design: Tinhead