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THE SOUND AND THE FURY

IDLES’ HARDCORE ANTHEMS HAVE TAKEN UP CUDGELS AGAINST LITTLE ENGLANDISM AND TOXIC MASCULINITY. BUT WITH NEW ALBUM, CRAWLER, THEY’RE HITTING CLOSER TO HOME, CONFRONTING SINGER JOE TALBOT’S STRUGGLES WITH ADDICTION. MEANWHILE, THEIR MUSIC REACHES BEYOND, INTO REALMS OF SOUL, NOISE AND... “POWERVIOLENCE”? “WE HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD,” THEY TELL VICTORIA SEGAL.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
JOE TALBOT IS UNWELL. SOMEWHAT UNNERVINGLY, HE MENTIONS this only after a very 2019 handshake, explaining that his return to live performance has been marred by a raging bout of Norovirus. While the Idles singer is now on the mend, sipping water in a hotel bar in Kingston-On-Thames, it was a shakier story a couple of nights ago when the band played two hometown shows at Bristol’s 140-capacity Louisiana. “We haven’t played in a room that size for a long time, so post-Covid or not it was a bit alien,” Talbot admits. “But I was so super-ill I just felt vulnerable – like, I shouldn’t be up here. I want to be in bed. Or on the toilet. It was rank.” Time off, though, is not an option for Idles…
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