Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor the uninitiated, Idles are a monumentally powerful British hard rock band whose music is loaded with punk and hardcore influences, although it’s not accurate to label them as either.
Their songs can sound deceptively simple on the surface: They’re often based around a basic rhythm or a two-or-three note riff — or a single, bent chord — but the band can be plenty complex when they want to, and their towering, effects-laden guitar sounds owe as much to Sonic Youth and Big Black as any punk forebear.But most of all, it’s Joe Talbot’s blow-your-hair-back vocals that give Idles their trademark: Possessed of a gravelly, overpowering voice, he roars his way through songs with titles like “Car Crash,” “War,”.
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