Grounds

Do you hear that thunder? That's the sound of strength in numbers Following the release and success of Idles' 2018 album Joy as an Act of Resistance, frontman Joe Talbot got criticized for speaking up for socialism and the rights of minorities. He wrote this defiant post-punk stomper as a response. "I want to sleep at night knowing that my platform is the voice of reason and an egalitarian want for something beautiful," he told Apple Music. "Not the murder of Black people, homophobia at the workplace, racist front lines."

"Grounds" is a marching tune, spoke-sung by Talbot over a brutal but simple beat and bursts of guitar. Talbot described it as "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."

Talbot addresses Britain's colonial past. Sayin' my race and class ain't suitable So I raise my pink fist and say black is beautiful He explained to the BBC he believes those people who want to "make England great again" are ignorant of their country's past. "They don't know what genocide happened to make the empire what it was, and how important immigration is, and the National Health Service is, and socialism was as a construct in building our country, the welfare system, and looking after the poor," he said. "We are now in a class war, and the poor are losing massively. I'm just fed up with England."