Idles – The Beachland Ballroom: New Song Of The Day

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Idles front up at The Beachland Ballroom, the first single from their upcoming album, Crawler.

Yes, that’s right! Hot on the heels of last year’s Ultra Mono, Idles come roaring back with more new music for 2021. Here’s the record company blurb with more:

IdlesIDLES have announced the 12th November for CRAWLER via Partisan Records/Liberator Music, the UK group’s fourth album in as many years and the follow-up to their first UK No. 1, 2020’s Ultra Mono. The 14-track project was recorded at the famed Real World Studios in Bath during the COVID-19 pandemic and co-produced by Kenny Beats (Vince Staples, Slowthai, Freddie Gibbs) and IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen.

First single ‘The Beachland Ballroom’, named after the iconic Ohio venue, is an honest-to-goodness soul song featuring a gorgeous, gripping vocal performance from frontman Joe Talbot.

Says Talbot of the track, “It’s the most important song on the album, really. There’s so many bands that go through the small rooms and dream of making it into the big rooms. Being able to write a soul tune like this made me go, fuck — we’re at a place where we’re actually allowed to go to these big rooms and be creative and not just go through the motions and really appreciate what we’ve got. The song is sort of an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it. It’s one that I really love singing.”

Adds Bowen, “I didn’t know Joe could sing like that. He’s been trying to write ‘Be My Baby’ since the very beginning, but he didn’t want to be the punk guy wearing the Motown clothes. He wanted it to feel natural, and this song is.”

On CRAWLER, the group bring to life vivid stories of trauma, addiction and recovery with their most soul-stirring music to date. There are, of course, numerous moments that will inspire absolute mayhem in a packed concert venue this autumn, like the warped glam rock of ‘The Wheel’, the 30-second grindcore slap to the head of ‘Wizz’ and the unhinged, pulverizing bass-and-drum groove of ‘The New Sensation’. But there are also fresh textures and experiments that push IDLES into thrilling new territory, like the alternate universe marching band anthem ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ and ‘Progress’, a “mantra of realisation” that soothes both body and mind in a way few IDLES songs ever have before.

Click here to watch the 13th Floor MusicTalk interview with Idles from last year.

The New York Times recently included IDLES’ new album in their Fall Music Preview saying, “The British band IDLES wrings new variations from the post-punk vocabulary of obstinacy, impact, dissonance, talk-singing and ratcheting-up tension on its fourth studio album. The band escalates from electronic Minimalism to flat-out stomp and roar; the vocalist, Joe Talbot, veers from bitter cynicism to dance-floor instructions to howls of “Damage! Damage! Damage!’”

IDLES will return to live performance on a sold-out 23-date North American tour that begins on 7th October. They will then play sold out UK shows throughout January and February 2022 that includes a four-night run at London’s legendary O2 Academy Brixton.

IDLES – CRAWLER
Out now through Partisan Records/Liberator Music
Pre-order here

IdlesTracklisting:
1. MTT 420 RR
2. The Wheel
3. When the Lights Come On
4. Car Crash
5. The New Sensation
6. Stockholm Syndrome
7. The Beachland Ballroom
8. Crawl!
9. Meds
10. Kelechi
11. Progress
12. Wizz
13. King Snake
14. The End

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