With pile-driving guitar riffs and drill-sergeant vocals decrying racism, Idles' 'Grounds' is a sign of the times
Part of the reason they’re able to pull it off is the space they put between their drill-bit guitar lines. They fill the space between their six-string earthquakes with sparkling New Wave synth lines, fluttering ambience, and of course Talbot’s gut-check declarations of might.
“Do you hear that thunder?” he asks before the chorus. “That’s the sound of strength in numbers: I am I, unify!” He backs it all up with perfectly self-righteous screeds about street smarts and standing up for what you believe in. “There’s nothing brave and nothing useful,” he says at one point. “You scrawling your aggro shit on the walls of the cubicle saying my race and class ain’t suitable, so I raise my pink fist and say, ‘Black is beautiful.
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