Dawes - Passwords 4/26/24 AF Bristol's finest post-punk polemics Idles

Bristol's finest post-punk polemics Idles have been promising to do great things for some time now

with the latter being re-recorded here more than a decade later

once reborn

a thirst unquenched and a quality so staggeringly high it's a wonder this band doesn't implode

Dawes - Passwords 4/26/24 AF Bristol's finest post-punk polemics IdlesOn the group's sixth album, Passwords, inspiration pulls guitarist singer Taylor Goldsmith, drummer Griffin Goldsmith, bassist Wylie Gelber, and keyboardist Lee Pardini into their most universal, topical territory to date. This is a record about the modern world: the relationships that fill it, the politics that divide it, the small victories and big losses that give it shape. Taylor's writing is personal at points the result of his recent engagement,