IDLES have contributed four original tracks and performed the full score for Darren Aronofsky‘s upcoming film ‘Caught Stealing’, with new track ‘Rabbit Run’ streaming now.
The band have collaborated with composer Rob Simonsen (‘The Whale’, ‘Deadpool’, ‘Wolverine’) on the project, which also features their cover of ‘Police and Thieves’, originally penned by Junior Marvin and covered by The Clash on their 1977 debut album.
“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,” explains frontman Joe Talbot. “But in hindsight, I realise that Darren is one of my favourite 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.”
Aronofsky adds: “I built ‘Caught Stealing’ to be a roller coaster of fun and wanted to supercharge the film by main lining a punk sensibility. 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.”
The soundtrack album will be released via Partisan Records on 29th August, the same day the film arrives in theatres through Sony Pictures. The film stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito Martínez Ocasio and Carol Kane.
IDLES, completed by Mark Bowen, Lee Kiernan, Adam Devonshire and Jon Beavis, are set to play their only UK headline shows of 2025 this weekend.
The dates in full read:
AUGUST
1 Queen Square, Bristol, UK
2 Queen Square, Bristol, UK
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