#101

Dead good

#102

This is smashing.

#103

Interesting - personally donā€™t think this is anywhere near as ā€œimmediateā€ as the last album

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#104

Yeah I like it a lot. One of those bands that have made me realise I havenā€™t fallen out of love with new music (Protomartyr also help).

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#105

Makes me think of Girl Band in parts

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#106

itā€™s been a while since Iā€™ve listened to this (and the first time where itā€™s not been a stream which leaves gaps between songs) but the sequencing is spot on with this one

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#107

Great first listen. Really like a lot of the references and turns of phrase. Theyā€™re at risk of sounding a bit sixth form, but thereā€™s a genuine-ness and a sarky charm/wit that for me means they end up hitting far more often than missing. This album is certainly a significant step foward from the first in all areas.

A lot of the hooks are already in my head, and this will probably be in my top 10 of the year just about.

Never Fight A Man With A Perm is class. June is brutal. Canā€™t wait to see these live again.

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#108

Yeah, Iā€™m sold on them now. Cracking album. @Otto is spot on: theyā€™re on the verge of sounding a bit adolescent lyric wise but their openness and knack for a turn of phrase keeps them from teetering over. Wish Iā€™d have fallen for them before their Cardiff in-store sold out now.

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#109

Thank you IDLES for giving me something this month that is not just ok

Absolute belter!!

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#110

Really dig the tunes but just canā€™t get on with, as someone said above, the Banksy-ness of the lyrics. I really believe theyā€™re genuinely felt and KNOW that theyā€™re great guys, itā€™s just sadly a wall between me and the music.

I read an interview with the guy where I thought he sounded a bit like a politician on the campaign trail too, and I think thatā€™s feeding into it.

Probably one of those Iā€™ll listen to in a year without the hype/context and enjoy a lot more. Glad to see them doing well.

#111

Havent looked forward to an album release so much for a very long time. Enjoying it a lot. But fucking hell ā€˜Juneā€™ is a proper gut-punch. Beautiful but so, so hard to listen to

Only criticisms would be that 4 songs released prior to the album release has possibly lessened the impact slightly for me (felt the same with FOTL ā€˜how to stop your brainā€™ with 3 or 4 songs already available on eps etc), and the cover song doesnt need to be on there, for me

Agree with ma0smā€™s 8.5

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#112

Fucking belter this

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#113

What a fucking cracker this is. Danny Nedelko (who apparently I have several mutual Facebook friends with, who knew!), is the best thing Iā€™ve heard all year, just pure, exuberant, singalong brilliance.

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#114

Wombic charm of the Union Jack
As he cries at the price of a bacon gap

Excellent

#115

Yeah this is excellent. On my second listen only half an hour after finishing my first!

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#116

This is proper good. Agree with whoever said Colssus should have kept going and going rather than going into the second half.

With a 9 week old son as well listened to June once and wonā€™t be listening to it again for a bit. That song is Mount Eerie levels of sadness that I struggle to listen to constantly.

#117

Musically I agree but I love the wrestling references lyrics, especially the Ted DiBiase line, in that end section

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#118

Yeah, Iā€™ve got a 13 week old daughter and that was a real bleak listen. It passed me by on first listen, but properly got me on the second. Was chatting to @weeber about In Metal by Low taking on a whole new meaning when you have a kid. This is similar

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#119

Yeah for same reasons and as @Roughyed said I canā€™t go near that mount eerie record. Although about his wife other than child itā€™s just the devastation of a hole like that being torn in a family

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#120

I WIN NO MATTER WHAT IT COSTS ME

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