IDLES Tangk Translucent Orange Vinyl Edition

An album full of love songs, gratitude and strength

Bristol (uk) based Idles have today announced their forthcoming fifth album 'tangk'. 'tangk', the 11-track follow-up to their Grammy-nominated album Crawler, was co-produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), Mark Bowen and Kenny Beats (Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benee) and the band themselves. 'tangk' - pronounced "tank", with a hint of "g" and an onomatopoeic allusion to the whipping guitar sound the band envisioned as a kind of seal for the life in love - is the band's most ambitious and impressive album to date.

Idles are one of the strongest rock bands of the last decade. Godrich, Beats and Bowen have also been a formidable tandem for Idles, pushing them into new territory and then tightening the reins when needed. 'tangk' is at once expansive and focused, inventive and immediate. Of the album, singer Joe Talbot says: "tangk. I needed love. So I made it. I gave love to the world and it feels like magic. This is our album of gratitude and power. All love songs. Everything is love."

Where Idles were once out to take the piss out of the world, stand up to the perpetually outdated and exorcise personal trauma in real time, they have arrived in this new act to offer the fruits of such perseverance: Love, joy and indeed gratitude for the mere possibility of existence. This music thrives not in spite of our problems, but because of them. If we don't care about ourselves and each other, 'tangk' seems to exclaim in one powerful hook after another, who will?