IDLES in KUTX Studio 1A

KUTX - The Austin Music Experience - Presents IDLES in Studio 1A Great music doesn’t have to make you feel good. If it did, Ornette Coleman was a hack, Stravinsky is a nobody, and every metal fan in the world would throw away their copies of Master of Reality. It’s readily accepted in other kinds of art outside of music–people don’t talk about how good it felt when they saw Picasso’s Guernica, and most probably don’t feel good after watching a Cronenberg film. Now, I’m not suggesting that Bristol’s IDLES have fundamentally rearranged our understanding of music like Stravinsky and Coleman did, but punk music as a whole certainly did. Well, does, because IDLES and their contemporaries are proving that punk is indeed not dead. In fact, it’s the best it has been in a long time. As I said, I don’t feel good when I listen to IDLES. It’s more like a violent seesaw between anger and catharsis, and there’s a lot to be angry about lately. Frontman Joe Talbot’s sardonic Bristol swagger is the perfect condu