Joy as an Act of Resistance

The title of ‘Gram Rock’ is both a play on the musical genre glam rock as well as a reference to crack rocks. Talbot takes on the voices of two drugged-up bankers as he explains to All Things Loud: "It’s an imagined Dadaist scenario of two hedge fund city boys at a funeral off their face on coke." While Talbot himself has a history of drug use, he told Dork that he’s turning his life around – even if he may still joke about it: "Q: What do you want to achieve with this second album? Read more on Last.fm.

Idles are an English post-punk band formed in Bristol, England in 2009. The success of the band’s debut EP “Welcome” did not go unnoticed and so it happened that BBC Introducing in the Southwest honoured the group as “Band of The Year” in 2012. After a hiatus, the band returned in 2015 with “MEAT EP” and “META EP”. “Divide & Conquer” and “Well Done” were released in 2016, when it was announced their debut album “Brutalism” was released on March the 10th, 2017 and was supported by a 24 date UK Tour during March and April. https://root.theworkpc.com/music/preview?img=http://www.idlesband.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.