IDLES self-released their debut album Brutalism last year. The Austin American-Statesman described their appearance at this year's SXSW as "May be the best punk show of its kind I’ve ever witnessed...felt like experiencing something people will be talking about for years to come."
The bands' second album Joy as an Act of Resistance bluntly addresses everything from toxic masculinity, immigration, racism, nationalism and more. The band are able to channel those weighty subjects though pure positivity and even biting humor. About the band, Stereogum have said, “IDLES seem to be the sort of band who transcend corniness by virtue of conviction and intensity. In their hands, clichés are more like blunt weapons.”
Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan and Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), the album takes aim at everything from nationalism and immigration to class inequality - all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarises: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.”
Release: Partisan Records/Pod, August 31st, 2018
Words: Inertia Music
The bands' second album Joy as an Act of Resistance bluntly addresses everything from toxic masculinity, immigration, racism, nationalism and more. The band are able to channel those weighty subjects though pure positivity and even biting humor. About the band, Stereogum have said, “IDLES seem to be the sort of band who transcend corniness by virtue of conviction and intensity. In their hands, clichés are more like blunt weapons.”
Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan and Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), the album takes aim at everything from nationalism and immigration to class inequality - all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarises: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.”
Release: Partisan Records/Pod, August 31st, 2018
Words: Inertia Music
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