what's your opinion on idles?
- Salfaromeab
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Re: what's your opinion on idles?
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.
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- JSett
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Ian Dury did it better.
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- welshywelsh
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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That's true of any style of music with a historically un-mainstream sound, that becomes relatively mainstream.jorri wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:54 pmI 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.
Seattle, Manchester, Bristol, many many others, all been through it.