I never had Idles down as a great Bristol band, I confess. In fact, I never had them down as very much of anything at all. Through occasional and accidental contact, I associated the quintet with a cadre of unlovely groups – Sleaford Mods, Shame, Soft Play (formerly Slaves), Viagra Boys – that emerged in
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The fingerstyle experimentalist’s new album bends guitar, mouth bow, field recordings, and electronic detritus into into vast tapestries of pliant drone