IDLES have recorded four new songs plus the film score to the upcoming Darren Aronofsky-directed movie Caught Stealing, which hits U.S. theaters on Aug. 29. The soundtrack is due the same day in digital form from Partisan Records and includes lead track “Rabbit Run,” which is out now, and a cover of Junior Marvin’s “Police and Thieves,” which the Clash introduced to rock audiences by including it on their 1977 debut album.
Beyond the four new tunes, IDLES also recorded Rob Simonen’s score for Caught Stealing, which stars Austin Butler as a former high school baseball star who gets mixed up with New York gangsters. The cast is rounded out by Zoe Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito Martínez Ocasio and Carol Kane.
IDLES frontman Joe Talbot says, “This has been a huge opportunity for us that seemingly came about after a chance meeting backstage at Fallon when we both happened to be guests on the same day. But in hindsight, I realize that Darren is one of my favorite directors and his films have in some ways made me who I am as an artist. This lucid dream has been a lifetime in the making and one that I will live over and over with a huge sense of humility and joy.”
“I built Caught Stealing to be a roller coaster of fun and wanted to supercharge the film by main lining a punk sensibility,” adds Aronofsky. “I don’t think a band has really been tasked with performing a score for a movie. Who better to collaborate with than IDLES? It has been a dream watching them bend their notes to blast a hole in our movie screen.”
“I was really excited by the idea that Darren had for our third project together, which was to write a score for IDLES, using them as our orchestra,” enthused Simonsen. “They had created original songs for the film, and building a palette that started from their sound – the incredible textures they create through inventive use of feedback, distortion and pedals – was a really satisfying challenge. Our work with the band was genuinely inspiring. They’re not only extraordinarily talented musicians, but individuals with clear eyes, big hearts and bold souls.”
IDLES will stage the biggest hometown shows of their career on Aug. 1-2 at Queens Square in Bristol, England, and will then support Deftones and My Chemical Romance at various North American shows in September.
