IDLES announce new album, share LCD Soundsystem collaboration “Dancer”

U.K. band IDLES are back with details of their fifth studio album and a new single, "Dancer," featuring James Murphy and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem. A video for the single can be seen below.

"Dancer" is the first release from Tangk, due for release on February 16 next year. It's the band's follow-up to 2021's Crawler and was produced by Nigel Godrich, Kenny Beats, and their own Mark Bowen.

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Speaking to NME, frontman Joe Talbot explained that the LCD Soundsystem collaboration came about when the two bands played a series of shows together last year.

“If you don’t ask, you don’t get,” Talbot said. “By that point we’d been touring with them for a few weeks and knew they were lovely human beings. They took time out of their day off and took us to their studio. They were really accommodating and lovely, so hard-working, patient and awesome. They’re sick.”

Talbot added that "Dancer" is representative of the vibe on their fifth album.

“When I started this album, I said to Bowen: ‘I want to make people dance, I want people to feel the love that I need in my life, I want to make people move, I want our music to be infectious again – and I want it to be infectious in a way that makes people feel, not think. I want to feel part of something electric again,'” Talbot said. “I wanted to elaborate and transgress from Crawler, which was the start of something new for us. When something feels as electric as Crawler did, I just wanted to continue it and to evoke a sense of purpose with what we are as musicians."