shiny coals, lofty goals

Foals - "Black Gold" and "The Orient"

I've considered it, but I don't think I'll ramble on too much about Total Life Forever, because it's not making me move at the moment...Doesn't mean you oughtn't give it a go, though--it does present a handful of more than savory bites. "Black Gold" glistens unassuming for a bit, shimmers with deft bridges and repeatedly asks "What's happened to you?" while its tremendous build up at the 3:32 mark, promising change and gold, gives us an anti-climactic return to normalcy. It works here, actually. In the lighthearted "The Orient" Wes Anderson-ian flicks come to vague memory, but this is a bit better, I think, because there's no script to lay claim on its scene, no Bill Murray feigning facial paralysis to trouble the words: it's all yours.