Total Life Forever

Rock · 2010 · 27 tracks · 1h 25m

Total Life Forever

A lush, aquatic evolution of math-rock. Shimmering guitars and breathy falsettos trade frantic energy for a slow-burning, cinematic sense of scale.

It's like math-rock went for a swim in the ocean at midnight and came out sounding like a movie score.

A shimmering, submerged tension that slowly releases into moments of widescreen emotional catharsis.

Total Life Forever · vs · Foals

Ocean+4.0σ

Ocean saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 27 Tracks · 1h 25m

01

Blue Blood

5:17

02

Miami

3:42

03

Total Life Forever

3:18

04

Black Gold

6:26

05

Spanish Sahara

6:50

06

This Orient

4:03

07

Fugue

0:48

08

After Glow

6:09

09

Alabaster

4:00

10

2 Trees

5:16

11

What Remains

4:37

12

Bloo Blood

1:00

13

Bloo Blood 2

0:46

14

TLF

0:40

15

TLF 2

1:00

16

TLF 3

1:31

17

TLF 4

1:02

18

TLF 5

1:26

19

Black Gold //

2:53

20

Black Gold 2

8:30

21

Spanish Sahara (sonar)

1:20

22

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0:36

23

Alabastr

1:31

24

Two Trees

0:50

25

Two Trees 2

1:37

26

Remains

1:13

27

Spanish Sahara (Deadboy remix)

8:58

Moments Worth Waiting For

The glacial six-minute build of Spanish Sahara that finally erupts into a wall of distorted catharsis.

The interlocking, percussive guitar interplay on Miami that feels like clockwork coming alive.

The transition from the sparse, electronic pulse of 2 Trees into the finality of What Remains.

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