CRAWLER
Exploring personal subject matter and wider musical terrain, the Bristol band’s fourth album plays like the dark origin story for how Idles became the preeminent life coaches of modern post-punk.
The Bristol band's fourth album is a course correction, one that dials down the aggression in favour of reflection
The Bristol band’s fourth record is magnetic storytelling tempered with newfound patience.
There are occasional subtleties here, but overall this is the work of a band moving furiously forward
The UK’s most incendiary post-punks IDLES continue to evolve, not revolve, on fourth album...
Damon Albarn’s latest solo outing proves he refuses to rest on his laurels, as Courtney Barnett faces down the doom and gloom of modern-day existence. Rod Stewart’s latest effort is the sonic equivalent of dad dancing, while Idles offer some of their most interesting music yet
Well, they've done it. Against all odds, IDLES have become… boring. What an unlikely feat! For a group of rowdy British punks who rose to pr...
The phenomenon that continues to grow from strength to strength. It might have taken the best part of a decade for IDLES to make any kind of headway outside of their native Bristol, yet since 2017’s debut Brutalism provided an unsuspecting and unrelenting platform into the wider world, it’s probably fair to say they haven’t looked back.
The boisterous and aggressive Bristol punks IDLES are back with their raucous fourth record - ‘Crawler’. Serving as a post-pandemic follow-up
No holds are barred, and nothing is off-limits, as Joe Talbot goes deep on this expansive follow-up to last year’s Ultra Mono<br>
Idles have never sounded more vulnerable than they do on the reflective Crawler – a subtly progressive step forward from the Bristol punks
CRAWLER by IDLES Album review by Adam Williams. The UK band's forthcoming release, comes out on November 12, via Partisan Records
Fourth album from Bristol alt-rock pummellers lets the shade to bleed through. Review by Thomas H Green.