The band talk us through the whims of their very suggestible lead guitarist and his beloved CD player
It must be hard to decide on a signature sound when you’re in a band. So many disparate opinions; so many possible routes to tread.
This must be at least one hundred times harder when you’ve got a guitarist who insists on attempting to change your sound to whatever’s kicking around in his glovebox.
Thank goodness, then, Idles seem to have nailed down a definitive sound despite the intrusions. It’s definitively sweat-soaked post-punk tinged with frustration, despair and a dark sense of humour and their MEAT EP (which you can grab here) just launched at a duo of raucous shows in London, and, of course, hometown Bristol. In fact, we premiered one of the videos of the excellent new tunes. See that here.
Here’s frontman Joe Talbot on their impressionable guitarist, Bowen, and the music he’s tried to get them to sound like because he listened to it in the car on the way to practice.
Marijuana Deathsquads
Bowen decided that we needed synths. Almost in a panic, he announced that this would be our new “thing”.
Bowen: “We need synths, it’ll be our new thing!”
Me: “Why?”
Bowen: “Because hfowewojcbdskcdjbs ahh shut up!”
Me: “What’s in your cd player?”
Bowen: “Marijuana Deathsquads”
Jon punched him in the balls.
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