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Mar 11, 2024If there’s a more innovative and exciting rock album coming in 2024, we can’t wait to hear it.
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Feb 16, 2024On TANGK, IDLES have broadened their horizons while retaining the guts and soul that made them. With prudence, craft, and ambition they’ve created something that borders on the monumental. Divisions be damned.
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Feb 16, 2024IDLES have been uncompromising with their sonic language. They still seem to make songs the only way they know how: from a place of both liberation and pain. Their album of love songs can only sound like this, because they know that to truly love unconditionally is easier said than done.
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Feb 20, 2024No longer just parochial rabble rousers, Idles are moving on up.
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Feb 15, 2024There’s a great depth of sound throughout, no doubt thanks to Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich who co-produced and mixed Tangk, and it allows the heavenly moments to feel even bigger.
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Feb 15, 2024TANGK is an artsy outing that is polished and honed while refusing to stay complacent and neat, their range as a band now seems limitless as IDLES release the riskiest and most rewarding music of their career.
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Feb 15, 2024Not everything on Tangk works, but the vast majority of it does, with an urgency that draws you into its message of positivity: reason enough to break out the freudenfreude.
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Feb 15, 2024TANGK adds something else to the conversation. A level of fragility that has not yet been displayed by IDLES, it is an album that swaps brash vocals with more tender notes. Love is the thing, and it seems like it is here to stay.
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Feb 14, 2024In forty minutes, the band not only reminds listeners why they became scene heroes but also why they’re one of the UK’s most thrilling exports. For our money, it’s another home-run of a record.
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Feb 14, 2024Musically, TANGK finds IDLES’ style rejuvenated, with drum patterns drawing from soul, techno and hip hop. The sparse beats and ominous background hums of POP POP POP are reminiscent of Radiohead’s Kid A.
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Feb 14, 2024‘TANGK’ is an adventure into pastures new. Talbot is keen to put arm’s length at the material that exorcises his past traumas and battles with addiction and general frustration at the modern malaise. Now’s a time of appreciation and restraint.
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Feb 14, 2024By the closing moments of the eery ‘Monolith’, it all becomes clear: this is love, but through the unmistakable eyes of IDLES.
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Classic Rock MagazineFeb 12, 2024Despite its subject matter, the Bristol tykes are still sonically and vocally as visceral as ever. [Mar 2024, p.81]
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Feb 12, 2024Its aim is true, uplifting and yes, mighty persuasive. [Mar 2024, p.80]
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UncutFeb 12, 2024Tangk is more about diverse, swooning sonic details that support troubled singer Joe Talbot's redemption. [Feb 2024, p.28]
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Feb 12, 2024While Tangk may bring us a more compassionate, empathetic version of the band who seem to be trying to find something that resembles peace after years of tumult, they still haven’t quite lost their punk spirit.
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Feb 12, 2024A raucous expression of love, TANGK is raw, vulnerable and inimitably IDLES.
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Feb 20, 2024The record’s more direct first half may appeal to those who want their old school IDLES fix, but repeated listens to its rangier second half reveal an emotional complexity and sonic cohesion that have long escaped the band. Suddenly, there’s reason to be excited about where IDLES are headed.
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Feb 13, 2024While TANGK is a mostly successful effort that showcases continued musical growth, it’s hard not to miss the bite that once came with the bark.
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Feb 12, 2024Tangk underpins its more personal and emotional lyrics with rich, layered arrangements. It’s in this delicate balance of sound and sentiment that the album finds its groove—not always in the heights it occasionally struggles to reach, but in its earnest exploration of love.
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Feb 20, 2024CRAWLER, especially, reads like a love album—a demonstration of the hard work and self-reflection required to be the most loving version of yourself. Talbot’s integrity could be felt on every beat. But TANGK boils love down so much it’s not clear if there’s anything there at all.
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Feb 16, 2024On TANGK, Idles smooth their rougher edges as they explore love in all of its facets—it would be their warmest and most melodic record to date, if only Talbot could get out of his own way.
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Feb 20, 2024The fact that TANGK captures a band boldly going out of their own depth doesn’t take away that IDLES come on a little too strong too often, compelling you to swipe left more often than right.
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Feb 22, 2024A rather inoffensive listening experience, a middle ground that Idles have mostly been able to avoid until now.
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Feb 15, 2024Tangk is sadly, and far too often, a rather boring album by a band who can and should be doing much better.
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Feb 16, 2024IDLES wanted TANGK to be their Kid A, but they ended up delivering their Tranquility Base Hotel Casino.
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