Idles by Tom Ham
IDLES released Crawler back in 2021.
IDLES were the musical guests of Jimmy Fallon last night.
The band aired The Wheel from their fourth studio album Crawler which is nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
“Compromise in this new realm is even more anathema,” our review reads. “In prose there’s an honesty so adjacent you can almost smell its breath: The Wheel opens with Talbot recalling a maternal plea by his ten-year-old self (‘I got on my knees/And I begged my mother/with a bottle in one hand/It’s one or the other’), whilst the rabid post-punk of Crawl! deals with addictions of his own (‘Damn I’m feeling good/said the liar to the congregation’).”
“Other subjects are less and more familiar in equal measure. Manically awkward, The New Sensation deals tangentially with gecko-like Prime Minister in waiting Rishi Sunak, whilst a thirty-second power violent blast in Wizz gleefully contains non-secateurs cadged from a former dealer’s texts.”
