IDLES‘ Joe Talbot has explained that he thinks ‘Ultra Mono’ “translated badly” in the absence of live music last year.Speaking to Mojo magazine, the frontman reflected on the setbacks of releasing the album in September 2020 – when concerts were still banned in the UK in a bid to curb coronavirus cases.“I think that album translated badly as a home-listening device.
The whole point of that record was to build a narrative with our audience,” he said (via Contact Music).“The album itself was a caricature of what people thought of us and we wanted to kind of twist that up and then burn that effigy so we would start [upcoming fourth album] ‘Crawler’.”Talbot continued: “We can’t make another ‘Joy’ [As An Act Of Resistance], we can’t make another.
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