Friday, October 24, 2025

500 Greatest Albums of the 2000's # 355 Foals - Antidotes

 


Foals now are muscular. Stallions. With Stallions they were unsteady on their pegs. Jerky. But infused with autistic energy. Their name was apt. They formed at  Abingdon School in Oxford and seem to have seeped up some of the same energy as Thom's earnest gang  from the school desks or the school hall walls. 'They're a Freak !'

I'm not sure  Antidotes really contributes much to the cure of anything. It's bracing mind. It comes on like a jerky work out in the gym with a demented sports instructor with an inadvisable moustache with Fear of Music blaring out  over the sound system. Playing at the wrong speed. It has a rhythmic, demented trajectory. School's out forever,  


 

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