Comprising Adam Devonshire, Joe Talbot, Mark Bowen, Lee Kiernan, and Jon Beavis, the indie-rock outfit expressed their gratitude to fans for propelling ‘TANGK’ to the summit. With 85 percent of its opening week sales in physical format, the album also secured the top position on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart and the Official Record Store Chart, emerging as the best-selling LP in UK independent record shops over the past seven days.

Reflecting on their achievement, the band conveyed heartfelt appreciation to their supporters, acknowledging their pivotal role in attaining the Number One spot. “Thank you very much to all of you that’ve supported us, bought our album and got us to Number 1. It’s a beautiful feeling,” the band relayed to Official Charts.

‘TANGK’ surpassed competitors such as Paloma Faith’s ‘The Glorification of Sadness’ and Crawler’s debut album ‘The Mess We Seem To Make’ to secure the top spot. This latest triumph adds to the band’s impressive chart history, with previous successes including ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’, ‘A Beautiful Thing: IDLES Live At Le Bataclan’, ‘Ultra Mono’, and ‘CRAWLER’.

‘GIFT HORSE’ diverges from the album’s previous releases, embodying a lean and taut intensity delivered in the unmistakable style of frontman Joe Talbot. Directed by David Helman, the music video for ‘GIFT HORSE’ accompanies the single’s release, offering fans a visual journey into the raw and thought-provoking world of IDLES. The video features a distorted and dystopian, yet slightly familiar, day within a supermarket. Talbot comments, “Look at us go! Music and movement for you and yours. Be bold and ride us like the disco donkeys we are.”

The release of ‘GIFT HORSE’ comes on the heels of IDLES’ eagerly awaited comeback in October, marked by the debut single from ‘TANGK,’ titled ‘DANCER,’ featuring contributions from James Murphy and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem. In December, IDLES released another single, ‘GRACE,’ a slower and more soulful song exploring themes of redemption and introspection, adding another layer to the ‘TANGK’ repertoire.

The band recently unveiled an extensive tour schedule, spanning North America in May, June, and September, and the UK in July, November, and December. A substantial number of these upcoming shows have already sold out, some nearly a year in advance, but for those eager to secure a spot, tickets are available here.

To coincide with the album release, IDLES has expanded their tour schedule to include three intimate outstore shows in London and Bristol. The band will be taking the stage at Pryzm in Kingston, London on February 15, Electric Brixton in London on February 16, and playing a hometown show at the Marble Factory in Bristol on February 17. Tickets for the shows sold out within hours of release, a further testament to the growing IDLES fanbase.

‘TANGK,’ pronounced as “tank,” is promised to follow in the footsteps of their previous album ‘CRAWLER,’ which earned them two Grammy nominations. Fans and newcomers alike can mark February 16 on their calendars as IDLES prepares to unleash ‘TANGK,’ with a diverse production team and a series of powerful singles leading the way, fans can expect an album that pushes the boundaries of rock while staying true to the band’s unapologetic ethos.

Following the soul-soaked comeback single “The Beachland Ballroom” and the abrasive “Car Crash” today they release a new single “When The Lights Come On”. With its motorik rhythm and propulsive bass lines, the track harks back to the days when frontman and lyricist Joe Talbot would DJ in Bristol clubs until the early hours, chasing the party into the night only to be confronted by the harsh realities that turning the lights on can expose. See Below the Lee Kiernan directed Video.

The band will also embark on a sold-out (bar one date) European tour in the new year. With 4 nights at London’s Brixton Academy, 3 at Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse, and 3 at Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom, the tour is set to delight fans with their signature socially aware take on manic aggression. See full ticket information here.

Clearly bored of having downtime, the band have also taken on an excess of extra-curricular activities including remixing St. Vincent’s track “Pay Your Way in Pain”, and working with literal guitar legend Tom Morello (from Rage Against the Machine of course) on a track from his solo outing The Atlas Underground Flood, The Batchelor. They are even choosing to round out the year playing with The Strokes on New Year’s Eve at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

.@IdlesBand put their spin on a @St_Vincent single https://t.co/FTyybyIibv

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) December 9, 2021

The release of CRAWLER back in November was marked with a show at EartH in Hackney, London. IDLES were insistent on making this a show to remember, giving out records at the end of the show, inviting fans on stage, and clambering into the audience themselves to sing Christmas songs in the middle of November.

Regarding the new single, lead singer, Joe Talbot, explained, “When the lights come on. Our third offering from Crawler. A poem of light and sound exploring the cold light of day. Thank you x”.

 All the dates to their 2022 tour are sold out, the only exception at the moment being the final Brixton Academy date, see below for more details.

 16/01/2022- O2 Academy Brixton- London
17/01- O2 Academy Brixton- London
18/01- O2 Academy Brixton- London
19/01- O2 Academy Brixton- London
21/01- Motorpoint Arena Cardiff- Cardiff
22/01- O2 Academy- Birmingham
24/01- Vicar Street- Dublin
25/01- Vicar Street- Dublin
26/01- Vicar Street- Dublin
28/01- O2 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
29/01- O2 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
30/01- O2 Victoria Warehouse- Manchester
01/02- O2 Academy- Sheffield
02/02- O2 City Hall- Newcastle
03/02- Barrowland Ballroom- Glasgow
04/02- Barrowland Ballroom- Glasgow
05/02- Barrowland Ballroom- Glasgow

The talks between Idles frontman and the fans will start in The Y Theatre in Leicester on 19th November, then in The Foundry in Sheffield on the 20th November and finally in London’s Sebright Arms on 4th December. Get your tickets here. The shows will also have live music from OK Cane, Hands Off Gretal and Cat SFX.

On sale now! @idlesband’s Joe Talbot In Conversation with Alan McGee https://t.co/O2XcMrcAsS pic.twitter.com/DBr3hRllJL

— The Y Theat-aaargh! (@TheYTheatre) October 25, 2021

Live Q&A talk with Talbot will come shortly after the release of Idles’ new album Crawler that is out on 12th November. The upcoming record delves into “the worst years of my life but also the best, the most brilliant” Idles frontman said about the album. “If you don’t like hearing tales of struggle then you won’t like it. But it makes me feel happy because I’m here. I’m alive.”

Last month the band released “the most important song” from the upcoming album, “Beachland Ballroom”. “The song is sort of an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it. It’s one that I really love singing” explained Talbot. 

At the moment Idles are in the middle of their 23 dates North America tour that’s been sold out. The band will tour UK and Ireland, starting off next year January. More info about the tickets and dates you can find in mxdwn article here.

Meanwhile, in a recent interview with Mojo, Joe Talbot commented about Idles’ latest album Ultra Mono, which came out during the pandemic. It was released in September 2020, when live music in the UK was out of the question. “I think that album translated badly as a home-listening device. The whole point of that record was to build a narrative with our audience” he said. 

“The album itself was a caricature of what people thought of us and we wanted to kind of twist that up and then burn that effigy so we would start ‘Crawler’” he added. Ultra Mono been well translated for the fans as the album reached No1 in the UK Charts and stayed there for a whole week. 

He said that another version of the old albums cant be made anymore “because we’ve done it. To death“. “We’ve done the biggest loudest most brash big rock album version of ourselves we can and we won’t go back there. We have to move forward“.

Idles has recently been added as a headliner in next year 2000Trees festival. It will take place between 6-10th July 2022, more info you can find here.

The fourth studio album Crawler is out on 12th November and can be pre-ordered here. 

Larry Pink The Human announced it’s formation in April, 2020 and consists of guitarist Laurie Vincent of the punk band Slaves and the renowned producer Joylon Thomas. Thomas is best known for his work producing with the famous Irish band U2 and more recently his work with famed rapper Kendrick Lamar.

After the announcement of their formation, Thomas and Vincent released their debut single Love You, Bye and was followed shortly by their second track Might Delete Later. Both singles received critical acclaim for their soft and nostalgic beats and both were followed with official music videos on YouTube. It is unclear if the duo plans to release a full-length album, or any form of music collection, in the coming year.

On this new track release, WASTED DAYS [INBETWEEN], Larry Pink The Human collaborates with Talbot, currently of the rock band IDLES. IDLES recently released their third studio album Ultra Mono on September 25th, 2020. The indie punk-rock band was met with critical praise after the release of their newest music, for the continuation of their politically-charged and menaingful British sound.

While Larry Pink The Human has yet to schedule live-shows in 2020 or 2021 for their new music, IDLES has announced a UK Tour kicking of in April, 2021. Moreover, Vincent’s band Slaves has not scheduled tour dates for the upcoming year yet either.

Larry Pink The Human has however performed livestream and virtual gigs throughout 2020. The new duo has not performed in person as of yet due to safety concerns surrounding the Covid-19 global pandemic. So, where fans cannot see Slaves, they can catch Vincent on the livestream or order tickets to see Talbot on their 2021 tour.

The new track released today, WASTED DAYS [INBETWEEN], has followed suit with the tracks that came before it, in that it has a soft beat and a meaningful message to remember the ‘magic’ as you live in it.

Larry Pink The Human is Vincent and Thomas’ creative project and among the critical claim Jack Saunders of Radio1 Indie Show said that the new duo has struck something really special with this sound, I mean the melodies are those kind of catchy britpop choruses that made that genre so big in the 90s, but the production just time-travels it through to 2020 to put it out there in its own league.

No current show dates for Larry Pink The Human or Slaves.

IDLES UK and Ireland 2021 Tour Dates

07/05/2021 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow
08/05  – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow
09/05 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow
10/05  – 2 City Hall – Newcastle
12/05 – Motorpoint Arena Cardiff – Cardiff
13/05 –  O2 Academy – Birmingham
14/05 –  O2 Academy – Sheffield
16/05 – Vicar Street – Dublin
17/05 – Vicar Street – Dublin
18/05 – Vicar Street – Dublin
20/05 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
21/05 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
22/05 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester

Things won’t magically go back to ‘normal’ of course; pubs will reopen offering only indoor table service, and establishment owners will be asked to keep a record of customer details in aid of contact tracing. But one musician who we can thank for keeping us sane during the thirteen weeks since we last popped out for a pint is IDLES frontman Joe Talbot, whose online virtual talk show Balley TV has been offering the homely comfort of your local directly to your computer screen.

《《《 Balley TV 》》》

Free therapy? Virtual pub? Watch and you won’t learn a thing. All are welcome. Let’s hide in plain sight. Love.

Subscribe & set a reminder to watch at https://t.co/7cS8A8I0zT pic.twitter.com/8sswEKcBdT

— BalleyTV (@BalleyTV) May 28, 2020

Named after Talbot’s own label Balley Records, the show followed up May’s pilot with its second edition last Friday, featuring appearances from IDLES crew member Adam Greenwood, Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry, and indie songwriter Hak Baker. As with the first episode (in which Talbot was joined by his bandmate Adam Devonshire in chatting to The Streets’ Mike Skinner and Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova), the guests’ video displays were propped up onto the faces of two gargantuan cuddly toys in a whimsical take on the post-COVID hang out that only a net-era punk host could pull off. Greenwood was hitched onto the face of a deeply unsettling manikin but frankly the less talked about the better. Watch the episode here:

Adding to the high calibre of musicians involved thus far, Talbot has made public the dates and guests for four more juicy interviews we can look forward to every other Friday (the full list is detailed below). All this coincides with the run-up to IDLES’ hotly anticipated third album Ultra Mono, which is set for release on the 25th of September via Partisan Records. You can preorder the album through IDLES’ website here, as well as buy tickets for a series of livestream gigs the band are doing to celebrate the release.

Balley TV Ep. 3 w/ Arlo Parks & Billy Bragg – Friday the 3rd of July

Balley TV Ep. 4 w/ Kate Tempest & Kenny Beats – Friday the 17th of July

Balley TV Ep. 5 w/ Ishmael Butler & Sharon Van Etten – Friday the 31st of July

Balley TV Ep. 6 w/ Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam), Jehnny Beth (Savages) & Fern Ford (The Big Moon) – Friday the 14th of August

As nationwide music tours as we know them are likely to be put on hold until at least 2021, it’s the little guys who are getting hit the worst. Verge recently reported on a study from the Music Industry Research Association that pointed out the average working musician in the US overwhelmingly relies on touring as their primary source of income, and thankfully music distributors like Bandcamp have made impressive efforts to keep indie labels and artists afloat. But the touring business is a two-way street; let’s not forget that independent venues aren’t even afforded the revenue from online record sales.

Go to https://t.co/bg5xJBkjRV at 5pm BST TODAY to watch my conversation with the always-inspiring and genuine Joe from @idlesband, and more importantly donate to help support independent venues across the UK during this difficult time pic.twitter.com/U6fCdiz1Sv

— Anna Calvi (@annacalvi) May 25, 2020

Independent Venue Week is an initiative created in 2013 that celebrates the people who own, run, and work in independent music venues across the country. Given the state of live music this year, their work has become more vital than ever. In aid of a crowdfunder campaign they launched earlier this year, IVW are running ‘Take 5’: a series of online conversations between British musicians on their life in music, from early gigs, shows they’ve loved, venues they love and more widely how music has been such a positive influence in their lives.   Take 5’s inaugural session from last week (above) featured Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell and Calvi, the idea being that the series of conversations chains from one artist to the next. At the end of yesterday’s episode, Talbot revealed that in next week’s he would be talking to fellow Welshman James Cox. Comment your questions for the Crow’s frontman by 5pm today via the Twitter post embedded below.

James (@__CROWS) and I will talk about all the stuff next week. Please comment your questions for him below with #IVWTake5 and I’ll ask him them aggressively and we can get to the bottom of this. Get your questions in by 17:00 today. All is love. pic.twitter.com/9RJb0vr7IJ — I D L E S (@idlesband) May 26, 2020