IDLES SHARE NEW TRACK AND VIDEO ‘GREAT’

Photo Credit: Tom Ham

Following the single’s debut with Steve Lamacq on 6 Music and ahead of a live performance for Annie Mac onRadio 1, IDLES have shared another new song off their much-anticipated new LP Joy as an Act of Resistance out Friday, August 31 via Partisan Records and Pod / Inertia Music. ‘Great‘ is a pro-immigration black comedy (“Islam didn’t eat your hamster/change isn’t a crime”) as well as a scathing confrontation of the Brexit/Trump era. The song is accompanied by a music video directed by Theo Watkins.

Singer Joe Talbot says of the track: “Let us go forward with open minds and open hearts into that fuck off fire we’ve started. No blame, no hate. Just love and a blue passport.”

Joy as an Act of Resistance bluntly addresses everything from toxic masculinity, immigration, racism, nationalism and more. The band are able to channel those weighty subjects though pure positivity and even biting humour. Stereogum praised, “IDLES seem to be the sort of band who transcend corniness by virtue of conviction and intensity. In their hands, clichés are more like blunt weapons.”

‘Great’ is the fourth song to be released from IDLES’ upcoming release, following ‘Colossus‘, ‘Danny Nedelko‘ and ‘Samaritans‘. Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan and Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), the album takes aim at everything from nationalism and immigration to class inequality – all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarises: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.” Read Joe’s full statement on the album’s inspiration and origins here.

IDLES self-released their debut album – Brutalism – last year. That record carried the band to #1 on Spotify’s Viral Chart, they opened for Foo Fighters at the O2, and landed on Loud & Quiet, DIY, CRACK, NME, Dork and Radio 6’s albums of the year lists among others. They’ve performed to fervent audiences at Primavera, Latitude, Reading and Leeds festivals, and were one of the biggest success stories to come out of SXSW this March (“May be the best punk show of its kind I’ve ever witnessed…felt like experiencing something people will be talking about for years to come.” – Austin American Statesmen).

Joy as an Act of Resistance out Friday, August 31 on Partisan Records and Pod / Inertia Music.

IDLES
Joy as an Act of Resistance

1. Colossus
2. Never Fight a Man With a Perm
3. I’m Scum
4. Danny Nedelko
5. Love Song
6. June
7. Samaritans
8. Television
9. Great
10. Gram Rock
11. Cry To Me
12. Rottweiler 

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