Track Of The Week: Idles – Mr. Motivator


Idles playing Brooklyn Steel on May 10th, 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)

Idles playing Brooklyn Steel on May 10th, 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)




Track Of The Week, of course, comes from Idles with Mr. Motivator – the first preview of their highly anticipated follow-up to 2018’s era-defining Joy As An Act Of Resistance.

A single which takes up permanent residence in one’s consciousness after surreptitiously working its way in upon repeated listens, with the hooks, knowing winks and unifying messages, it contains all the Idles hallmarks as the build towards album three begins. Joe Talbot introduced it thus:

“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.”


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