U.K. rock band Idles will release its fourth album, “Crawler,” on Nov. 12 via Partisan Records. Produced by Kenny Beats (Vince Staples, Denzel Curry) and Idles guitarist Mark Bowen, it’s the follow-up to 2020’s “Ultra Mono,” the band’s first chart-topper in its home territory. The first single, the surprisingly soulful and restrained “The Beachland Ballroom,” is out now.
“The two prior LPs, we had a theme and a title and then we wrote the songs,” Idles frontman Joe Talbot tells PvNew. “This time, the title and theme kind of got lost, and Bowen and I just wrote songs. That feeling we got from them wrote the album. We found it to be a healthier mix. It just made us write really well.”
“Creatively, we thrive off of restrictions,” adds Bowen. “We had to write on our own, because we couldn’t get into a room with each other. We had some poetic license with the themes and the abstract ideas. We were restricted by setting. It takes you away from the self-aware aspect of being in a band. You’re not reading press [or thinking], we need to write a smash hit because of the charts. We were just writing music because we love writing music. It feels a lot more pure.”
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