Idles score UK Number One album with ‘Tangk’: “It’s a beautiful feeling”
nme.comIdles’ new album ‘Tangk’ has gone straight in at Number One on the Official UK Album Chart.The Bristol quintet’s fifth LP was released last Friday (February 16) and marks their second Number One album following 2020’s ‘Ultra Mono’.
Altogether, 85 per cent of its opening week sales were in a physical format.‘TANGK’ has also topped the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, as well as the Official Record Store Chart, making it the week’s best-selling album in UK independent record shops.“Thank you very much to all of you that’ve supported us, bought our album and got us to Number 1.
It’s a beautiful feeling,” the band told Official Charts. “We know, without any doubt, that it’s you that got us here.”The band’s frontman Joe Talbot had emphasised that ‘Tangk’ was an album full of love songs in the run-up to its release.Speaking to NME In Conversation, he said: “I’m interested in showing the different facets of love that are not so conventional, but are very fucking important: empathy, patience, honesty, communion, hard work, recovery, forgiveness.
That’s what I wrote about. I’m still there. I’m still going to need to go through it, and I’m still very much interested in writing about love forevermore.
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