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IDLES Joy As An Act Of Resistance Vinyl LP

Joy as an Act of Resistance is the second studio album by English band Idles, released on 31 August 2018 by Partisan Records. The album peaked at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart on 7 September 2018.

The band started recording the album in 2017. Singer Joe Talbot stated “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world.”^[2]

According to Talbot “lots of songs got scrapped because there was this pressure, which we were carrying but not talking about. We were trying to sustain the success of ‘Brutalism’, to basically remake it. So we kind of scrapped all the songs and talked about why we weren’t enjoying writing it.”

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The album was produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan and Nick Launay. The album’s cover art features a photograph of a fight at a wedding in 1968 that Talbot saw on Instagram.^[4] The title phrase is similar to the title of the 2008 poem, “Joy Is An Act of Resistance”^[5] (part of a series of poems called “The Telly Cycle”) by Pushcart Prize-winning poet Toi Derricotte, whose work as a Black woman explores race and identity.

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