Joe Talbot with Idles @ Terminal 5, New York City (Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
IDLES’ new album is out tomorrow.
It came to Joe Talbot in a dream, apparently, and Chris Martin was more than happy to lend a hand in making his vision for IDLES‘ Grace video come to life.
Deepfake AI tech has been used to transform Coldplay’s Yellow promo into this, the final piece in the build-up to the release of Tangk, which Live4ever has awarded a strong 8/10.
“On previous albums the impression was that experimentation came very much within certain parameters,” our review reads.
Talbot since though has spoken about confronting himself as an artist, making the group take up residence in their discomfort zone, a process facilitated by Godrich, of whom they’re all decades-long fans. The new boundary pushing approach is never more convincingly underlined in reverse than on Dancer, a familiarly muscular stomp which despite contributions from James Murphy and Nancy Whang already feels like a refugee from a less exhilarating era.
