IDLES announce new album ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’, share video for new track ‘Danny Nedelko’

Bristol’s IDLES have just confirmed details of their second album album ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’, due for release 31st August via Partisan Records.

The band have also shared the album’s first single, a pro-immigration anthem entitled “Danny Nedelko,”, which is named after one of the band’s close friends, and singer of fellow Bristol punks Heavy Lungs, who will support the band on the UK leg of their newly-announced world tour. Danny also features in the band’s self-directed video. It follows on from the recent release of comeback single ‘Colossus’ and the band’s brilliantly chaotic set at Primavera. Watch the video below.

Talking about the new record, the band’s Joe Talbot says: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.”

We also interviewed Joe about the album earlier in the year. Read the chat in full here.

The new album follows on from the band’s blistering 2017 debut album ‘Brutalism’, which we reviewed here. It comes alongside details of the five-piece’s first ever global tour, including their biggest London headliner yet at O2 Forum Kentish Town on 18th October. See the band’s full world tour dates, the artwork and tracklisting for ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’ and watch the ‘Danny Nedelko’ video below.