IDLES

Singer Joe Talbot and bassist Adam Devonshire, former classmates, decided to form a band to entertain at the Bat-Cave Night Club they run in Bristol. In 2010, they enlisted guitarists Mark Bowen and Andy Stewart, as well as drummer Jon Beavis. The Idles band formed, a first self-produced EP, Welcome, was released in 2012 on the Fear of Fiction label. A second EP entitled Meat was released three years later, as new rhythm guitarist Lee Kiernan joined the band, succeeding Stewart. As for the EP, it is quickly followed by remixes by David Pajo, Thom Alt J, Sly One and Peter Robertson for Meta. In summer 2016, the single "Divide & Conquer" heralded the release of debut album Brutalism (March 2017), focused on committed punk and dedicated to the singer's recently departed mother. Acclaimed by British critics, the band followed this up with a tour and, simultaneously, the writing of second album Joy as an Act of Resistance. which reached No. 5 in the charts after its release in August 2018. Following the same creative process, the musicians work on the composition of a new album during the promotional tour of the previous one. Ultra Mono, recorded in France at the La Frette-sur-Seine studios in Val d'Oise, was released in September 2020, flanked by five singles, "Mr. Motivator", "Grounds", "A Hymn", "Model Village" and "War". The opus, which gives Idles their first UK No. 1, also features contributions from Savages singer Jehnny Beth on "Ne touche pas moi", as well as Nick Cave collaborator Warren Ellis and Jamie Cullum. Their fourth studio album , Crawler, released in November 2021, reached No. 6 in the UK (No. 2 in the independent charts), before a world tour that included the Coachella festival in California in April 2022. In 2023, the track "Dancer", featuring James Murphy and Nancy Whang from LCD Soundsystem, heralded the release the following year of the album Tangk, produced by Kenny Beats and Nigel Godrich. The album, which embraced post-punk, industrial and gothic rock, reached No. 1 on its release in February 2024. The following year, the band collaborated with composer Rob Simonsen on the soundtrack to Darren Aronofsky's film Caught Stealing.

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