IDLES - Grounds

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

IDLES - “Grounds” from the 2020 album Ultra Mono on Partisan Records.

Bristol-based post-punk band IDLES return this fall with their third LP, titled Ultra Mono, out September 25th via Partisan. They've previously shared the singles "A Hymn" and “Mr. Motivator,” and for today's Song of the Day, we're sharing the single "Grounds." Frontman Joe Talbot explained in a press release:

“We wanted to write a song that embodied self-belief, and gave us self-belief — a counter-punch to all the doubt we build up from all the noise we so easily let in. We wanted to make the sound of our own hearts’ marching band, armed with a jack hammer and a smile. We wanted to make the sound of our engine starting. So we did. Thank you.”

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0:00.0	You will not catch me staring at the sun
0:14.4	Not sucking on a dumb don't turn around to run
0:19.4	No halleluias and no kingdom comes.
0:24.4	So you will not catch me staring at the sun.
0:27.8	Do you hear that fondle?
0:34.0	That's the sound of strength in numbers.
0:38.0	V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V. F.
0:49.8	I smell the blood of a million sons a million daughters from a hundred thousand guns not taught by our teachers on our curriculum.
0:56.0	Do you hear that fonder?
1:00.0	That's the sound of strength in numbers.
1:05.0	I'm fine.
1:07.0	I am fine.
1:10.0	You can be fine. Heified.
1:15.0	Heified.
1:17.0	Hey!
1:18.0	Not a single thing has ever been mended.
1:25.0	By you standing there and saying you're offended.
1:30.0	Go ahead, tell them what I've intended.
1:35.0	I say what I mean, through what I love, I'm sending.
1:40.0	Did you hear that thunder?
1:44.0	That's the sound is strength in numbers.
1:49.0	There's nothing brave and nothing useful. You strolling your agro on the walls of the cubicle. Say my
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