IDLES Share Hair-Raising New Single “Car Crash”: Stream

04 November 2021

IDLES are days away from sharing their new album, CRAWLER, and the Bristol post-punks are offering another preview with the new single “Car Crash.”

The slow-burning track arrives with an accompanying music video that splices together footage of collisions in cinema.

As its title indicates, “Car Crash” was inspired by IDLES frontman Joe Talbot’s own brush with death behind the wheel.

The music video, created by Matthew Cusick and edited by IDLES’ Lee Kiernan, predates the band’s formation. In 2001, Cusick began digitally cataloging car chase scenes from 20th century American films, combining more than 500 shots. “[The project] has now what it was always missing… a killer soundtrack,” Cusick says.

CRAWLER is the follow-up to 2020’s Ultra Mono, and also includes the lead single “The Beachland Ballroom.”