what's your opinion on idles?

[Salfaromeab]

Liked Brutalism, Joy As An Act Of Resistance was decent, lost interest in them after that really. Personally found a lot of the lyrics almost condescendingly un-subtle. Do like their instrumentation and the actual tone of Talbot's voice, but kind of feels like a 15 year old wrote the words.

[JSett]

Ian Dury did it better.

[welshywelsh]

Really enjoying the new album, far more densely textured and experimental than before, not really a surprise with Nigel Goodrich involved.

I'd agree about the lyrics - he insists on writing them during recording sessions and I do think they suffer as a result.

Still, the fact a band like this is getting on Fallon, will likely be number 1 next week and my daughter enjoys it with me is pretty fucking awesome.

[interceptör]

I had never even of them before this thread, but the other day I happened to hear an interestingly different song on the radio and it turned out to be Gift Horse; and, well, anyone who releases singles with weirdo bass intros is okay in my books.

EDIT: I just listened to the new album, and while I thought half of it was very good and the band has a delightfully original (to me, at least) style, I can definitely see how one would grow tired of them pretty fast.

[jorri]

I don't know a whole lot about them. Especially being from the home city, bristol, playing with band members who would have played on the same bill as them before they 'made it'... I just know there's a lot of that style in the city since they did, and that it gets incredibly samey and boring for a city that used to have a rich avante-garde music scene to be churning out 'contemporary music college graduate [post] punks' so much.

[welshywelsh]

I don't know a whole lot about them. Especially being from the home city, bristol, playing with band members who would have played on the same bill as them before they 'made it'... I just know there's a lot of that style in the city since they did, and that it gets incredibly samey and boring for a city that used to have a rich avante-garde music scene to be churning out 'contemporary music college graduate [post] punks' so much.

That's true of any style of music with a historically un-mainstream sound, that becomes relatively mainstream.

Seattle, Manchester, Bristol, many many others, all been through it.