Idles unveil Mr. Motivator, first single from upcoming third album


Idles at Leeds Festival (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Idles at Leeds Festival (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Idles have been inviting us all week to join bass player Dev on YouTube for an at-home workout, and it turned out to be the time for the band to unveil the first single from their upcoming third studio album.

Mr. Motivator has been given the monumental task of going first in the march towards Idles’ follow-up to 2018’s landmark Joy As An Act Of Resistance, frontman Joe Talbot saying they wanted to begin this challenge with a clear message:




“We want to start this journey with a means to not only encapsulate the album’s sentiment, but to encourage our audience to dance like no one is watching and plough through these dark times with a two tonne machete of a song and the most beautiful community of scumbags ever assembled,” he said. “Let’s go. All is love.”

More album three news is anticipated shortly.


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