Spanish Sahara (song)

"Spanish Sahara"
Single by Foals
from the album Total Life Forever
Released	17 April 2010 (2010-04-17)
Genre	Progressive rock post-rock
Length	6:35
Label	Transgressive Sub Pop
Songwriter(s)	Jack Bevan Edwin Congreave Walter Gervers Yannis Philippakis Jimmy Smith
Producer(s)	Luke Smith
Foals singles chronology
"Olympic Airways" (2008) "Spanish Sahara" (2010) "This Orient" (2010)

"Spanish Sahara" is a song by British indie rock band Foals. Although not an official single, it was the first song to be released from the band's second album, Total Life Forever. It was premiered on 1 March 2010, on BBC Radio 1. Later that night, a music video for the single was put up on the Foals' website. On 6 March, when the Total Life Forever site went up, Foals premiered instrument samplings of the tracks that would be on Total Life Forever in the track listing order. The fifth sample was a synthesizer sample of "Spanish Sahara".

The single was released on 17 April only as a 7", to celebrate Record Store Day. Only 1000 copies were printed and sold through independent record stores.^[1] The remix of the song by Mount Kimbie was later available as a free MP3 given to members of the Foals website.