Bristol UK’s IDLES have announced today their forthcoming fifth album, TANGK, that follows on from 2021’s Crawler. In an explosive run of unerringly stirring albums, TANGK, pronounced tank with a whiff of the g, is an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined the guitars sounding that has grown into a sort of sigil for living in love. TANGK is at once sprawling and focused, imaginative and immediate and is now available for pre-order here. Out today is the first single and video, the throbbing and scuzzy Dancer, that also features LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang. Rattling bass and ricocheting guitar give vocalist Joe Talbot space to talk about sweat and sex on the dancefloor. It is lascivious and playful and positive, the ecstatic sound of at least a ...