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Bristolās IDLES have always been a band to smile with a mouthful of blood, but on their newly announced fifth album TANGK (Feb. 16, 2024, Partisan Records), previewed via lead single and video āDANCERā this week, the hard-nosed English rockers donāt just smileāthey dance, too.
TANGKāāpronounced ātankā with a whiff of the āgā and an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined the guitars sounding that has grown into a sort of sigil for living in love,ā according to a press releaseāfinds IDLES reuniting with Kenny Beats (Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benee), who co-produced their Grammy-nominated 2021 album CRAWLER alongside the bandās own Mark Bowen. This time out, IDLES also enlisted none other than Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), who helped send their gleefully blunt post-punk sound in a new direction. As heard on āDANCER,ā TANGK retains the bandās swaggering brawn while letting its heart of gold beat louder than ever.
Released Wednesday alongside a cinematic music video (dir. Jocelyn Anquetil), āDANCERā finds IDLES wholeheartedly embracing dance-punk, down to the backing vocals by LCD Soundsystemās James Murphy and Nancy Whang. Tense percussion and thrumming guitar and bass lend the instrumental an exhilarating energy, while frontman Joe Talbot playfully evokes danceās physical communion via sensory detail and self-deprecating humor (āIām poised / Like a goddamn apeā). Nowhere is the songās sentiment more clear than in the improvised chorus: āI give myself to you / As long as you move on the floor.ā The video reflects that same idea, as IDLES and various strangers dance their way to absolution.
Talbot said of the track in a statement, “āDancerā is the violence that comes from the pounding heart of the dancefloor and rushes through your body and gives you life from music, from love and from you.”
IDLES will close out 2023 with a pair of shows in Asia before returning for a European run in early 2024. Youāll find their complete tour itinerary down below, along with the details of TANGK, and ticket info here.
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TANGK Tracklist:
1. IDEA 01
2. Gift Horse
3. POP POP POP
4. Roy
5. A Gospel
6. Dancer
7. Grace
8. Hall & Oates
9. Jungle
10. Gratitude
11. Monolith
IDLES Tour Dates:
Dec 1st 2023 – Hong Kong, CN @ Clockenflap
Dec 2nd, 2023 – Bangkok, TH @ Maho Rasop Festival
Feb 29th, 2024 – Porto, PT @ Super Bock Arena
March 1st, 2024 – Madrid, ES @ Wizinik
March 2nd, 2024 – Barcelona, ES @ Sant Jordi Club
March 5th, 2024 – Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
March 7th, 2024 – Paris, FR @ Zenith
March 8th, 2024 – Netherlands / Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS
March 9th, 2024 – Antwerp, BE @ Lotto Arena
March 11th, 2024 – Prague, CZ @ SaSaZu
March 12th, 2024 – Luxembourg, LU @ Rockhal
March 14th, 2024 – Zurich, CH @ Halle 622
March 15th, 2024 – Berlin, DE @ Max-Schmeling-Halle
March 16th, 2024 – Hamburg, DE @ Sporthalle
March 18th, 2024 – Stockholm, SE @ Munchen Brewery
March 19th, 2024 – Copenhagen, DK @ KB Hallen
March 21st, 2024 – Cologne, DE @ Palladium
March 22nd, 2024 – MĆ¼nchen, DE @ Zenith
March 23rd, 2024 – Frankfurt, DE @ Jahrhunderthalle
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