Partisan Records are proud to release this split 7” with IDLES and fellow Bristol-based band Heavy Lungs.

Danny Nedelko fronts Heavy Lungs and Heavy Lungs track ‘Blood Brother’ was written for IDLES frontman Joe Talbot.

“‘Blood Brother’ is a song of love and admiration about a close friend. His kindness. His ferociousness. His resilience. Joe is my blood brother.” – Danny Nedelko

IDLES are back and have taken the world by storm with their highly anticipated and critically-acclaimed second album, ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’. Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan and Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’ takes aim at everything from toxic masculinity, nationalism, immigration and class inequality – all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarises: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.”

Hailed as one of the best live bands, IDLES completed their sold-out tour in October, obliterated the Jools Holland studios and charted at Number 5 in the UK and they continue to prove themselves as one of the most important and relevant bands in the world right now.

“IDLES take their rightful place as not Britain’s, nor Europe’s, but the world’s most vital band” – The Quietus (9/10)

“They might just be Britain’s most necessary band” – The Guardian (????)

“IDLES are the most important band we have right now.” – DIY (?????)

“IDLES have made one of the best albums of 2018. Maybe the best.” – NME

“An uproarious, noisy triumph” – Q (????)

“No band is better equipped to document the here and now, warts and all.” – MOJO (????)

“The most relevant and at times gut wrenching album of the year” – Drowned in Sound (9/10)

“This is the band you want at the helm of the new age” – Upset (?????)