“IDLES have been uncompromising with their sonic language. They still seem to make songs the only way they know how: from a place of both liberation and pain. Their album of love songs can only sound like this, because they know that to truly love unconditionally is easier said than done. ”
“the Bristol firebrands change tack – with an album of love songs”
“The UK band declares "Love is the thing," in the loudest way possible on their fifth album”
“All is love on IDLES’ TANGK, an album drenched in fragility”
“the most open-hearted we’ve ever seen them”
“There are two wolves inside of UK punks IDLES on their fifth album, TANGK. The sludgy, motorik rock band return after 2021’s Kenny Beats-produced Crawler, searching for “joy upon joy” across TANGK’s whip-cracking 40 minutes. Co-vocalist Joe Talbot is the more brutish canine of the two, wielding his words like sledgehammers. The other dog in this fight is guitarist/dentist Mark Bowen, scheming with”
