Idles team up with Michel and Olivier Gondry on Model Village video

What a partnership. Idles have teamed up with Michel and Olivier Gondry on their Model Village promo, the latest track taken from the band’s forthcoming third studio album Ultra Mono.

Previously described by frontman Joe Talbot as, ‘the most Idles they can be’, the record is set to follow 2018’s landmark Joy As An Act Of Resistance on September 25th. “The band, seemingly, had had another premonition in the studio and written a rallying cry for a time which hadn’t yet arrived,” our look-ahead feature reads.

“One track in, and they’d grabbed what it’s law to call ‘these strange and unpredictable times’ by the scruff of its strange and unpredictable neck.”

“So in turn, if there was ever a year that needed Idles, it’s 2020. Other artists are writing in lockdown, others are inviting fans to star in their videos, still others on Instagram desperately trying to show us how to get an F chord right. But if its lead single is anything to go by, it’ll be this band’s spooky sixth sense which makes their third album the chapter, verse and final word on an almighty annus horribilis.”