The former is serious, important, tackling taboos with thunderous production and lyrics that are pro-immigration, anti-Brexit, pro-equality and determined to decapitate toxic masculinity. Well, it’s a fun film, and they’re fun punks there’s a notable dissonance between Idles’ music and collective persona. READ MORE: The Big Read: Idles on new album ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’ and the positive punk revolution The record also features a cover of ‘Cry To Me’, the 1962 Solomon Burke soul song that appears on the soundtrack (and was covered by The Rolling Stones in 1965), here reimagined as a grinding, skeezy industrial shuffle. On the deceptively brooding ‘Love Song’, which pairs howling guitar lines (that could have been lifted from the start of a horror movie) with compassionate lyrics about the redemptive power of romantic love, frontman Joe Talbot roars, “I carry the watermelon / I wanna be vulnerable”, a line partially borrowed from the movie. There are, improbably, a couple of nods to ’80s romantic drama Dirty Dancing on Bristol punks Idles’ instant classic second album ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’.
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