Ten years after amicably splitting

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we used two basses (playing utterly unmusical chords that were stabbed and left to sustain or sometimes hit in staccato or opposing rhythms)

and mode of being

IDLES - Ultra Mono (LIMITED COLOR VINYL) pacific Ten years after amicably splittingIf Joy As An Act of Resistance. was meant to detail the band's manifesto, then their highly anticipated third album Ultra Mono is the sound of IDLES heading into battle, battering ram in hand, for those tenets. Sonically constructed to capture the feeling of a hip hop record (Kenny Beats even helped with programming on several tracks), the songs double down on the vitriolic sneer and blunt social commentary of their past work. Not far beneath the