{"id":12012,"date":"2020-05-20T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2020-05-19T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:11:07","slug":"idles-drop-new-video-for-mr-motivator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12012","title":{"rendered":"Idles &#8211; drop new video for &#8216;Mr Motivator&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDLES have returned with a new track &#8211; \u201cMr. Motivator\u201d \u2013 a battering ram of positivity that\u2019s also the first preview of their highly anticipated third LP due out later this year. The song doubles down on the (self-admitted) sloganeering and social commentary that&#8217;s become the band\u2019s signature, yet here more than ever they\u2019re able to take clich\u00e9s and turn them into music that\u2019s deeply complex and brutally relevant. Listen\/watch the accompanying self-directed music video, which features fan-sourced exercise footage and the band members themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNCopmqsw1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>IDLES frontman Joe Talbot says of the song:\u00a0<em>&#8220;We want to start this journey with a means to not only encapsulate the album\u2019s sentiment, but to encourage our audience to dance like no one is watching and plough through these dark times with a two tonne machete of a song and the most beautiful community of scumbags ever assembled. Let\u2019s go. All is love.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IDLES last album \u2018Joy As An Act Of Resistance\u2019\u00a0was one of the best reviewed rock records of 2018, debuting top 5 on the official UK album charts. \u2018Joy\u2019 earned the band instantly legendary performances at\u00a0Glastonbury,\u00a0Jools Holland,\u00a0NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk, and sold out tours across the world. They featured on the covers of DIY, Loud &amp; Quiet, NME, Kerrang!, CRACK and So Young, as well as earning\u00a0high praise from many more. They also\u00a0won the coveted Ivor Novello Award for Best Album, and were nominated for the Mercury Prize and BRIT Awards. All 10,000 tickets to the band\u2019s Dec 2019 headline performance at London\u2019s Alexandra Palace sold out in under 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>More info on LP3 coming shortly!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=2991e55982&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Official<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=1faec96694&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=cf35857aa4&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=2e26a8507d&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IG<\/a>\u00a0\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=41c3a9b7a7&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDLES have returned with a new track &#8211; \u201cMr. Motivator\u201d \u2013 a battering ram of positivity that\u2019s also the first preview of their highly anticipated third LP due out later this year. The song doubles down on the (self-admitted) sloganeering and social commentary that&#8217;s become the band\u2019s signature, yet here more than ever they\u2019re able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[282,4125],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-idles","tag-sonic-pr","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12014,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions\/12014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}