Stream and revisit the review: our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past week is Idles’ fourth studio record Crawler.
“At some point in their career every successful artist has had the conversation.”
“It’s the one that takes place with themselves, where they ask, ‘What am I here for?’, ‘What do I/we write and perform music to achieve?’.”
“The answers will be infinite of variation, the public and private monologues different, but before a note of Crawler was written, Joe Talbot and the rest of Idles had definitely had the conversation.”
“The Bristolians ascent has been built on hard work and a connection with their audience most would envy, whilst to some outside the circle they’ve been divisive figures. Much of their supposed polemic should be taught in schools and yet – music being music – the way these beliefs have been expressed has made detractors of those who should be peers.”
