I5 knucklehead 6 G 13

[rayge]

A Idles - Exeter



B Ice - Ice Man

[DarknessFish]

All I know about Idles is that the No Wave facebook group hates them, along with Black midi, and has banned all posts about them. So I guess they crossover to the experimental side, but are generally to mainstream indie for the cynical old buggers. This is actually better than I was expecting, though there's a touch of Sleaford Mods about those vocals, a forced Johnny Rottenness. That high-pitched guitar riff is nice though, and it does have a certain appeal. It almost reminds me of a big-budget production version of those early UK Decay singles, distinctive guitar tone, good bass, over-confident annoying singer.

I'm guessing that this isn't the Justin Broadrick/Kevin Martin industrial hip-hop Ice? I mean, it just seems fairly unlikely. This is a standard mid-60s pop rock song that has a kind of warm Bee-Geesy hook. Not realy my cup of tea, and really outstays its welcome.

A

[Deleted]

A has "energy", that's what you're meant to say with these things, right? It's also pretty ugly and cumbersome.

B is nothing revelatory, but its a sweet tune and the odd Psych touches in the arrangement keep things interesting. Like a bubblegum Procol Harum.

B

[toomanyhatz]

Both pretty nondescript and unexciting, though B has a nice fadeout. And is more 'my kind of thing,' of course. A does well in critics polls, right? I feel like I always see their name in year end top-25s. Does it go anywhere new? Not to my ears.

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enjoyed both

A

[oh oooh]

Idles are stunningly awful. Really, really bad. I think they're EVEN WORSE than Sleaford Mods and I never want to hear anything by them again.

B

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

I really enjoyed the instrumental bits of B, but the sung verses were a bit shit. Not as shit as A, though. Ugly, ugly stuff.

B

[neige]

I'm keener on melody than on sheer power, so I enjoyed B with its nice little flourishes a whole lot more than A

[osgood]

No way I would listen to A outside the cup. It can fuck right off.

The sound of B is a bit annoying, probably the youtube copy fault. Not good enough to check somewhere else, anyway I wouldn't bother to play it again. Its winning here has more to do with A merits.

B

[DayoRemix]

Idles are trying to be Interpol..The music almost gets there, but the vocal does not..Kinda annoying..B just isn't my thing, so Idles lucks out..Vote A

[fonz]

Punk for the Coldplay generation (‘? Bedwetter punk’) or inoffensive 60s pop.

Tough call (lolz)

B

[Sneelock]

B reminds me of all those Fake 60's bands from the 90's like Beachwood Sparks or those Elephant 6 bands. I don't HATE the first one but I agree that the vocals don't do it any favors.

[fearlessfreap]

Fuck, modern music is just terrible. B for this old-timer.

[morgan]

A was vile. B was ok but stuff like this was two a penny in the late sixties and is fairly undistinguished.

B - reluctantly.

[oleandermedian]

A - what did Exeter do to deserve this, I wonder.

B starts well but the more it goes on the more plastic it feels. Still,

B