Bristol-based band IDLES have announced their fifth album, TANGK. The 11-track followup to 2021’s CRAWLER was co-produced by Nigel Godrich, the band’s Mark Bowen, and Kenny Beats. Speaking about the album, lead singer Joe Talbot said, “I needed love. So I made it. I gave love out to the world and it feels like magic. This is our album of gratitude and power. All love songs. All is love.”
Lead single “Dancer” kicks off with an infectious swell of cinematic strings before pulsing bass notes and interlocking guitar lines ride on the back of a drum beat. “‘Dancer’ is the violence that comes from the pounding heart of the dancefloor and rushes through your body and gives you life from music, from love and from you,” Talbot shares of the track, which features backing vocals from LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang.
Check out the video for the track below, and pre-order TANGK here.
