Combining the tightly coiled energy of Interpol with the muscular shoe gaze of Swervedriver, IDLER WHEEL’s “Matches” ignites a blast of propulsive, melodic post-punk that races towards a rapturous finish. Toay, we have teamed up with Michael, the brain behind the project, to give you his special list of Teased by the first single “Matches”, tackling the struggle to resist giving into a doomed relationship, and instead deciding to plunge in and embrace a kind of ecstatic, fleeting chaos, Idler Wheel’s new LP RUN STRAIGHT DOWN releases today on Candlepin Records! The album title comes from William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Count Zero – detailing a chase that’s thrilling, disorienting, and hopelessly against the odds. It feels like the world these days, feels like the m...