Idles - Tangk

Tangk is the fifth studio album by English punk rock band Idles, released in February 2024 via Partisan Records.

Idles formed in 2009 in Bristol, UK, and comprise Joe Talbot (vocals), Mark Bowen (guitar), Lee Kiernan (guitar), Adam Devonshire (bass) and Jon Beavis (drums).

Tangk is the righteous and vibrant fifth album from madcap truth-seekers, Idles. Pronounced “tank” with a whiff of the “g” - an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined their guitars sounding that has since grown into a sigil for living in love - the record is the band’s most ambitious and striking work yet.

Where Idles were once set on taking the world’s piss, squaring off with strong jaws against the perennially entitled, and exercising personal trauma in real time, they have arrived in this new act to offer the fruits of such perseverance: love, joy, and indeed gratitude for the mere opportunity of existence.

Co-produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), Kenny Beats (Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benee) and Idles guitarist Mark Bowen, Tangk is a love album; open to anyone who requires something to shout out loud in order to fend off any encroaching sense of the void, now or forever.

This album is a limited edition on translucent orange coloured vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a die-cut printed inner sleeve, pressed in Germany via Partisan.