These are the themes of the album and if you aren’t in bits at the end of 3 mins 35 seconds then you simply aren’t listening. Be human, shed tears, be real, embrace your honesty. Speaking as someone who has just become a Grandad for the first time, the song is virtually impossible to listen to, a relentless percussive heartbeat topped with the tortured, tormented words of Hemingway “Baby shoes. However, the album is split asunder by ‘June’ a song recorded amidst a time of unspeakable personal tragedy for frontman Joe Talbot. If the band broke into a rendition of ‘The Self Preservation Society’ it would be wholly appropriate. On display are eleven tracks of wit, sarcasm, scorn and visions of a better world set against a barbaric soundtrack which is seemingly on the point of collapse, teetering over the precipice like an Italian coach laden with gold bullion. I refuse to fawn over the band simply because it’s a fashionable and populist notion but…but…this is a staggering piece of work. If their debut Brutalism took a blunderbuss to a knife fight in a bid to lay waste to the perceived multitude of cancerous sins being committed in the name of ‘modern living’ then Joy As An Act Of Resistance has a more measured snipers aim.Ī mere 500 words is insufficient to convey the relevance and emotional catharsis contained within this album, I could and probably should attempt a genuine critique but you know what…sod it! If you really want a smart, intellectual dissection of the album then there is a myriad to choose from within a quick Google search. IDLES, in the space of a couple of years and one album, have transcended the UK music industry and evolved from an irritating fragment of gravel in the shoe of popular culture to full blown poster boys for the future of music, society, the universe and pretty much anything else you care to mention.
The most eagerly anticipated album of 2018.
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