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Silver Tongues

    London's Crows are the latest signing to Balley Records (IDLES, Heavy Lungs, Lice) and will deliver their long-awaited debut album "Silver Tongues" on March 22nd. The album's thrilling first single "Chain Of Being", was recently Lamacq's Livener on 6 Music, is a real statement: a widescreen slice of post-punk that combines heaviness and brooding melody in equal measures. Joe Talbot said the following of his decision to sign Crows to his Balley Records label: "I saw them play at the Louisiana in Bristol a few years ago and both the performance and the quality of their songs blew me away. Everything about them excites me; so when I heard they were looking to release an album, I had no choice but to chase them. It's a dream to work with them.”. 

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Silver Tongues
    2. Demeanour
    3. Empyrean
    4. Wednesday's Child
    5. Hang Me High
    6. Crawling 
    7. Chain Of Being 
    8. Tired And Failed
    9. First Light / False Face
    10. Dysphoria

    Bristol’s finest post-punk polemics IDLES have been promising to do great things for some time now, and with their debut album “Brutalism” they absolutely fulfil that promise, and a furious promise at that. Politically charged, refreshingly confrontational and infectiously volatile, IDLES are a band like no other. Bringing the unsettling reality of the world we live in into their frantic assault on the senses, they are a band that until now could only be truly understood by witnessing in a live environment - but with “Brutalism” it surely feels like they have captured the intensity of that live sound.

    Bottled up here are the abrasive, memorable lyrics of Joseph Talbot delivered with all of the spite and wry humour he puts across on the stage .Dedicated in part to the loss of his mother, who adorns the record’s cover, and partly to a perceived decimation of society, from the NHS to public services across Britain, “Brutalism” is a deadly serious indictment on popular culture. 

    “Idles are one of the most exciting British bands right now and Brutalism is the proof”-The Line Of Best Fit

    ”Visceral anthems that’s timed weirdly well for this year’s madness“ NME

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: Snarling, pretence-free modern post-punk perfection from Bristol's very own Idles. From the slamming power-chord mayhem of “Well Done”, laying into Tarquin and his love of reggae and football, to the throbbing hook-laden 'Rachel Khoo', this is an unrelenting but perfectly formed juxtaposition of melodic sensibility and brazen, all-out aural warfare. Killer.

    TRACK LISTING

    1.Heel / Heal.
    2.Well Done.
    3. Mother.
    4. Date Night.
    5. Faith In The City.
    6.1049 Gotho.
    7.Divide & Conquer.
    8. Rachel Khoo.
    9. Stendhal Syndrome.
    10. Exeter.
    11.Benzocaine
    12.White Privilege
    13.Slow Savage


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