Idles – Colossus
Idles - Colossus
Release Date: Out Now
If you’ve not yet had the pleasure,
if ‘pleasure’ is the right word, then I suggest you come get yourself a slice
of Bristol band Idles. Stat. New single ‘Colossus’ is the first new material
from the band since their critically acclaimed last album and it is brutal. The
sinister click of the drum sticks and grinding bass notes that introduce this
track let you know that something wicked this way comes. “Forgive me Father, I
have sinned, I drained my body full of pins” goes the teeth-clenched lyric atop
the increasingly intense thundering horses-hooves of that rhythm section while
the guitars swirl and gyrate. The crescendo gives out at around the four-minute
mark for a brief pause before the craziness kicks back in with the simple
message, “I don’t want to be your man”. This is a song in support of not living
up to masculine stereotypes but delivered with such pent-up aggression and
bravado that it’s going to confuse a butt-load of meat heads. Which is always
fun. As is watching someone dressed as Evel Knievel do topiary which is in the
video. So, like I say, come get yourself a slice.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/idlesband/
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