In the few short months IDLES have spent touring stateside, they’ve gone from cult New York bar act to headlining midsize venues from Brooklyn to Peoria. The music on this record is unrefined in the same way that sugarcane is unrefined - any further processing would strip it of its vitality. Now the name of the game is to see past the pain: Joy as an Act of Resistance. While they mined grief and addiction on their heralded 2017 debut, Brutalism, its follow-up seeks to further focus their notorious, explosive, tongue-in-cheek energy. Joe Talbot, the band’s sardonic, growling singer, lost his disabled mother, cleaned up his substance abuse, and watched the xenophobic Brexit go down - all while his Bristol-based punk and post-hardcore quintet blew up in his home country. IDLES’ new album concerns the tragedies of illness and loss, the addict’s vacillation between sobriety and vice, and the discomfort of rational people at the current state of the world.
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