MEAT EP
★★★
(Balley, 2015)
After the dour interpolations of 2012 debut EP Welcome and a long period of recalibration, here Idles sounded like a band locking into a voice of their own, the call-and-response of the Monks-inspired The Idles Chant and the while-Rome-burns violence of Queens putting the flesh on their post-punk bones.
BRUTALISM
★★★★
(Partisan/Balley, 2017)
A concrete monument to grief – Talbot’s mother died during recording - Brutalism sometimes echoes the blasted mood of PiL’s similarly bereft Death Disco. Anger is also an energy, especially on Well Done’s dark sardonic class analysis (“Mary Berry’s got a job/So why don’t you get a job?”), Exeter’s male-pattern punch-up and the Tory-scaring Mother.
JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
★★★★
(Partisan, 2018)
Triggered by “seeing a country fall apart”, their…
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