Joe Talbot performing with The Idles, on Stage 2, at the 2017 OnBlackheath Music Festival
Idles (stylised as IDLES) are a British rock band formed in Bristol in 2009. The band consists of Joe Talbot (vocals), Mark Bowen (guitar), Lee Kiernan (guitar), Adam Devonshire (bass) and Jon Beavis (drums). Their debut album, Brutalism, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, as was their second album Joy as an Act of Resistance in 2018. Their third album, Ultra Mono, was released on 25 September 2020. The band's music has been associated with punk rock[30][31] and related genres including post-punk,[32][33] hardcore punk,[34] and post-hardcore. Singer Joe Talbot, however, rejects all of these labels. In 2017, he was quoted as saying: "We're not a post punk band. I guess we have that motorik, engine-like drive in the rhythm section that some post punk bands have but we have plenty of songs that aren't like that at all. At a 2018 concert in Manchester, he said: "for the last time, we're not a fucking punk band".
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