Idles

TANGK is the brightest boldest record yet from a band with two GRAMMY nominations, a BRIT Award nomination, a Mercury Music Prize shortlist, and UK #1 album in their wake. TANGK is also a bona fide pop record in a way we've never heard from IDLES before, that is, something for everyone to pass around and share, communal anthems intended for overcoming our grievances. The word - pronounced "tank" with a whiff of the "g" - began as an onomatopoeic reference in-studio for the sound of a guitar tone, but has grown into a sigil for living in love. Joe sings on TANGK in a way we've never heard before, completing his transformation from post-punk firebrand into soul singing evangelist. TANGK was co-produced by Nigel Godrich, Kenny Beats, and Mark Bowen (from IDLES). The contrast between Joe's magnetic force-of-nature and Bowen's contemplative + studied production wizardry has never been more complete and compelling than it is on TANGK.

På denna platta har de signat Partisan och kallat in producenten Space, och mixats av teamet<br/>bakom Arcade Fire - och resultatet är en klockren modern tagning på punkrock - en käftsmäll av rang. Melodiskt med attityd.

In a time of polarised politics and murky waters; IDLES and bands like them are needed to remind people that it&#039;s ok to dance and laugh and sing in the face of adversity. Bristol&rsquo;s finest post-punk polemics IDLES have been promising to do great things for some time now, and with their debut album &ldquo;Brutalism&rdquo; they absolutely fulfill that promise, and a furious promise at that. Politically charged, refreshingly confrontational and infectiously volatile, IDLES are a band like no other. Bringing the unsettling reality of the world we live in into their frantic assault on the senses, they are a band that until now could only be truly understood by witnessing in a live environment - but with &ldquo;Brutalism&rdquo; it surely feels like they have captured the intensity of that live sound. Bottled up here are the abrasive, memorable lyrics of Joseph Talbot delivered with all of the spite and wry humor he puts across on the stage.

Idles: Model village [Vinyl 7"]

Idles: Caught Stealing [CD]