Idles have been on social media confirming work has started on their third studio album.
In one of their regular Haikus, the band revealed that the start of 2019 has encouraged them to begin work on the follow-up to Joy As An Act Of Resistance – the essential album of last year.
“The biggest surprise is that in a very cynical world we’ve had such a positive reaction,” Joe Talbot told Live4ever after we named it as our album of 2018. “Not in terms of, ‘your album’s really good’, more like they’ve reacted positively as people to our positive message, or our positive outlook.”
“Often positive outlooks or positive attitudes are reacted to with awful cynicism. Not just cynicism, that’s not awful, cynicism is often pragmatic, but just people being arseholes for the sake of it. But we’ve actually had a really positive reaction to it. It’s been a very compassionate exchange, and that’s a massive surprise.”
IDLES album 3 Haiku
Oh hello new year!
There’s no time like the present
To write album three— I D L E S (@idlesband) January 3, 2019
