The angry and insistent IDLES are musicians, who call for boundless love through their punchy, angry songs. IDLES earned a nomination for the prestigious Grammy Awards this year alongside artists such as Ozzy Osbourne and Bryan Adams.
IDLES have emerged from the dark holes of the British port city of Bristol to shout their fear, anger and apprehension at the world around them on the ruins of the decaying indie scene there. The band’s genre oscillates somewhere between rock and punk. They then combine the fury of post-punk and punk rock with a muscular, moody instrumental attack that matches the purposeful menace of the lyrics. Their music is raw and honest to the core, and the band uncompromisingly wrings sweat and blood from fans and themselves in concert. The musicians are not afraid to communicate their bold and brutally honest opinions on the state of British culture and politics in their songs, but they also delve into more intimate and personal topics. In their groundbreaking album ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’, the Bristol five-piece mirror issues such as Brexit, the migration crisis and toxic masculinity. In it, singer Joe Talbot tackles his traumas from drug addiction and the death of his child.
