Idles – Mercedes Marxist (Partisan Records)
Idles - Mercedes Marxist
Release Date: 2nd August 2019
The Bristol lads Idles are taking
over the world. Literally. In fact, these guys are so damn busy that they’re
flagging their next single now even though it doesn’t come out until August
because they are touring all over the place. Anyway, I ain’t complaining about
a sneaky peak at a track like ‘Mercedes Marxist’ which is, as you might expect,
explosively raw and brutal from the get-go. Framed around a garage beat and
throbbing bass line, a rattling guitar line and Joe Talbot’s distinctive vocal
soon join in to build the tension. Talbot’s vocal delivery is taking on more of
an American twang in places but that doesn’t detract from that visceral and incendiary
energy that has made Idles the hugely deserving hot tickets that they are.
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