IDLES recreate Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’ with new video for ‘Grace’
IDLES have launched the official video for ‘Grace’, an AI recreation of Coldplay’s iconic ‘Yellow’ video, however with Chris Martin singing the phrases to this tune as a substitute.
The video sees Martin strolling down the identical seaside that he walked alongside for his personal 2000 tune, as night time turns to day inside 4 minutes.
IDLES frontman Joe Talbot says the idea to make use of the Coldplay imagery for ‘Grace’ got here to him in a dream, and he contacted Martin on to ask for his permission. Martin not solely agreed to it, however helped to coach the AI software program in order that his new ‘efficiency’ would look extra real looking.
Take a look at the video right here:
“No god, no king, I mentioned love is the factor,” sings Talbot throughout the monitor, showcasing IDLES’ new manifesto of affection triumphing over nihilism.
The tune was produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), Kenny Beats (Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benee) and the band’s Mark Bowen, as is the remainder of the album.
“The tune got here from nowhere and the whole lot. It was a breath and a name to be held,” Talbot has mentioned, discussing the inspiration behind the tune. “The one phrases or singing that got here from our periods with Nigel and I wanted it, actually. All is love.”
Again in December, ‘Grace’ was the second monitor the band launched to preview their fifth album ‘Tangk’, which comes out on Friday (February 16). The album’s different singles thus far have been ‘Dancer’, that includes LCD Soundsystem, and ‘Present Horse’, which they carried out on Fallon final week.
In a four-star evaluate of the brand new album, NME wrote: “’TANGK’ is an journey into pastures new. Talbot is eager to place arm’s size on the materials that exorcises his previous traumas and battles with habit and normal frustration on the fashionable malaise. Now’s a time of appreciation and restraint.
Chatting with NME about what followers ought to count on from ‘Tangk’, Talbot mentioned late final yr: “It’s our most vivid and our most completed songwriting. We’ve completed songs. A few songs on ‘CRAWLER’ have been very a lot unfinished. That wasn’t by some type of worry, however by a way of poise. We have been like, ‘That is going someplace, however let’s not power it’. It was unfinished within the sense that it didn’t have a story arc and the musical lingo that we wish, however what we did have have been songs and components that we fucking beloved.”
“Now we now have that underneath our belt and we’re capable of create that arc and end songs off,” he added. “We really feel like we will transfer on, full cease.”
Earlier this month, Idles have been additionally confirmed to be enjoying this yr’s Finish of the Highway Pageant.
That look will likely be a part of an extended yr of touring for the Bristol band, together with a run of intimate UK gigs subsequent month, a European leg, an extended North American tour and a recently-extended UK headline tour in direction of the top of the yr. Take a look at the newest inclusions to the UK tour right here, which have been added as a consequence of excessive demand.