#IDLES

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // IDLES - Grace

Sorry for the radio silence this week - I had another baby.

[arundolyn]

the sleeper

[tooquirkytolose]

Me constantly if we're being honest

[dershoimvik]

docile prophet puts a tune to my smile The Righteous Gemstones, POP POP POP

[gedankenstroeme]

Give me grace

give me light

hold me up as I take flight

make me safe

away from harm

please caress my swollen heart

[nezu-mi]

[drchucktingle]

true buckaroos IDLES trotting hard last night in the city of devils. what a show had a great time gettin riled up in the name of LOVE

[punk-chicken-radio]

ax trax of the week

idles - grace

the righteous gemstones reminded me how great this song is.

-ax

[crumb]

IDLES - DANCER

[allbornscreaming]

IDLES — POP POP POP (dir. Stewart Baxter, 2024) +

[dillweed1236]

(2018) IDLES - I’m Scum

npr Tiny Desk Concert 2019

[verbalwish]

“My mother worked fifteen hours five days a week,

My mother worked sixteen hours six days a week,

My mother worked seventeen hours seven days a week,”

[arundolyn]

you can take the bunny ears off the girl but you can't take the bunny energy away

[now-more-than-ever]

♪ Mother by IDLES

[aeolianblues]

I can't muster up any nostalgia for the 2010s at all. It was drudgery. It was depressing as hell how directionless and saturated our cultural industries were. The decade of Chainsmokers, Imagine Dragons and Mumford and Sons dominating radio. The odd and blank stare you'd get from people for suggesting anything that wasn't EDM-pop. I. Have. Fucking. Had it. With 'Shape of You' to last a lifetime. If I never heard that song again I would be just fine. It was decade of 'Hello Sunburn, NH7 who?' (NH7 Weekender was also boring and 55+ in age, though this means something to very few people on here.)

It was the decade of swapping Ableton beats in discord channels. It was getting told off for not liking One Direction and Taylor Swift by your friends. It was when rock music had such a stone age mentality that genres couldn't mix, if you liked anything other than just rock music, you couldn't be considered a serious rocker (musician or fan).

And does anybody remember the "landfill indie" years? So much directionless indie music by bands that didn't quite have the impact for how often you heard their name: Wombats and what not.

The gender imbalance was so so fucked. Do festival bills were so dude-heavy. Sausage fest. Cock rock. We kept saying this and idiots kept saying "well maybe if women were any GOOD they'd get booked but they're sooo boring >:( and lame", like the idiots they were.

There was an all-male indie band called Scouting For Girls. The festivals they were playing had 2 girls on the lineup. The bookers did not see the irony. Or the problem.

Look at the nominations for every award show from this period. Christ.

There were a few musical highlights I guess. In terms of new bands we got like Wolf Alice, Royal Blood, Soft Play (then called Slaves) and CHVRCHES in 2013. From old bands we got Like Clockwork and AM, and Royal Blood got heavy endorsements from the likes of Alex Turner, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl for essentially 'keeping rock music alive'. Figure It Out was a banger, no less. We got Muse's Drones in 2015 too, though that's less than 5 notable rock albums I can think of in about half a decade.

We got Greta Van Fleet by 2017, but they were a talking point then because 60 year olds needed to debate whether they were allowed to exist for sounding like Led Zeppelin. Because of course. We cry when we have things and we cry when we have not. IDLES also began catching underground praise, though it wasn't as mainstream as Royal Blood received, definitely not before their Reading and Leeds 2019 performance, which was at the end of the decade, where Danny Nedelko began catching people's attention.

I'm much happier now in the music scene. There's a healthy crop of bands that have something to say, they make all sorts of music, and heavy music is surprisingly back in fashion.

As a card-carrying resident of the 2010s growing up, why would I ever want to dwell in 2015 when I can live a more inspired life in 2022?