Talbot: “Our experience as musicians, and mine and Bowen’s as fathers, meant that our writing took a very natural course – which was to suck up all of the gratitude that we got through being carried through that pandemic. Speaking to NME around the time of ‘CRAWLER’, you explained how the band were looking to reclaim the “essence” of IDLES and shed some of the anger and negativity of ‘ Ultra Mono‘. (Photo by Matthew Baker/Getty Images) Hello Joe. Joe Talbot of IDLES performs at Village Underground on Octoin London, England. NME caught up with Talbot to discuss positivity, pushing things forward When something feels as electric as ‘CRAWLER’ did, I just wanted to continue it and to evoke a sense of purpose with what we are as musicians.”

“I wanted to elaborate and transgress from 2021’s ‘ CRAWLER’, which was the start of something new for us. I want to feel part of something electric again’,” Talbot told NME. “When I started this album, I said to Bowen: ‘I want to make people dance, I want people to feel the love that I need in my life, I want to make people move, I want our music to be infectious again – and I want it to be infectious in a way that makes people feel, not think.