TANGKis the righteous and vibrant fifth album from madcap truth-seekers, IDLES. Pronounced tank with a whiff of the g – an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined their guitars sounding that has since grown into a sigil for living in love – the record is the bands most ambitious and striking work yet. Where IDLES were once set on taking the worlds piss, squaring off with strong jaws against the perennially entitled, and exercising personal trauma in real time, they have arrived in this new act to offer the fruits of such perseverance: love, joy, and indeed gratitude for the mere opportunity of existence.

A radical sense of defiant empowerment radiates fromTANGK, co-produced by Nigel Godrich, Kenny Beats, and IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen. Despite his reputation as an incendiary post-punk sparkplug, frontman Joe Talbot sings almost all the feelings inside these 10 songs with hard-earned soul, offering each lusty vow or solidarity plea as a bona fide pop songthat is, a thing for everyone to pass around and share, communal anthems intended for overcoming our grievance.

TANGKis a love albumopen to anyone who requires something to shout out loud in order to fend off any encroaching sense of the void, now or forever.