Foals - Titan Arum Lyrics

Titan arum is known as "the corpse flower" due to its smell of rotting meat and corpses that it gives off in order to attract insects that can pollenate it

Man this track is hard to find on other platforms e.g Spotify

Anyone 2019?

Santiago Velasquez

Yes!

And, the assassins are still there...

o/ I just saw them live again a couple of days ago too. <3

i read its about his brother, sounds like he might have tried to commit suicide...?

Some real undefinable Foals stuff. I would love them to do an album like this.

Yannis wrote this tune about his brother. Man I wish they did an album in this direction, glaciers, gold gold gold, the b-side stuff is their best work in my opinion.

+Henri Wilson They had a sort of blog page a few years back where this track was up for download... Yannis said it was about his brother but no further details than that...

maybe he tried to commit suicide?

be nice now that's pure speculation

They sort of sound like this on their recent album, you predicted the future

They tend to go for a darker, slightly proggier sound mixed with their antidotes style for their early bsides and it's just amazing. I can see why these wouldnt really make the cut though. Not that the bsides are bad it's just considering how funky, shouty and upbeat antidotes sounds, songs like titan arum, glaciers and gold gold gold would just feel incredibly out of place and honestly quite disturbing lol. Imagine a song like this coming straight after balloons, just wouldnt work.

Maybe they can revisit some of these bsides and earlier work of this type that might not have been released and give them to us on a mixtape or something, but thats wishful thinking.

Love it :)

the flower could be like an analogy for depression.... once depression affects a life, it's not something a person can so easily disregard and it's very damaging, such as the scent of the flower is not something a person can so easily forget about since it's so strong and repulsive.

Perfect song realy good as foals....

@F1CO
LMFAO!!!

download link is dead.. just saying...

Even though I love Foals album stuff I really want to hear their next album to be more experimental and dark.

this bit was the most interesting to me

"contractors nor the council can find the time to piece your head again"- i think it suggests that the average person cannot help a melancholic person get back in tact with his/her's psyche. "contractors and council" being two different occupations of work, but both having one thing i common-fixing things.

I'm not quite sure how the flower has anything to do with this song
but initially i thought it was about the futile attempt to escape depression

"sleep this off" -obviously meaning trying to sleep more often to get something off the mind
"your mind is just a loaded gun"- meaning your mind is full of thoughts/memories (most likely bad ones)

your videos aren't the best quality, have you bought the songs?

sleeeeeep this offf sleeeeeep this offf your mind is just a loaded gun! fucking brilliant!

this track is so heavy. makes my brain feel mushy..

Probably one of the best chill out tunes of the decade, so awesome!

any trip effects?

I mean *find* sorry

How can i found this song to dowload or buy ?!!

this drummer is a bamf. and so is this band.

ive got a load of foals b sides and demos.. this has to be my favorite track of all (album).. i can listen to music at work luckly and i play this one so loud.. i wish theyd record it for a album ad clean it up alittle cause it kills me everytime i hear it. great upload

Nope. These are B-sides.

Mate, your such a legend for putting these up. Ive been trying to get the chronic and a song for you for ages! And the rest of them are great to!

i heard some of theese songs were going to be on their next record?