Today, Belgian five-piece Whispering Sons share a brand-new remix of their single ‘Heat’ by none other than British-Irish rogue-rockers IDLES. Stripping the song to its bare bones, ‘Heat’ gets turned upside down in a hypnotizing industrial disco noisefest.
Listen to the remix here: whisperingsons.lnk.to/idlesremix
"I fell in love with this band within 30seconds of listening. It’s an approach to Gothy-new-wavey-post-punk that you can only seem to get from bands from mainland Europe, then and now. There’s a realness to it, it lacks the contrivance of its UK version, it’s familiar without being nostalgic, raw and polished at the same time. Both thought out and feeling. With the remix I wanted to exaggerate all the gothic elements and take them to extremes of existential dread and doom to shaking all that out on the goth disco dance floor."
— Mark Bowen, IDLES
“We’ve been long time IDLES fans! Whether we were blasting ‘Mother’ through the backstage to get us warmed up pre-show, or chanting “concrete to leather” when the adrenaline was still pouring as we were driving back to the hotel, their music always put us in the right mindset. Getting one of our tracks remixed by them is pretty unbelievable.”
— Fenne Kuppens, Whispering Sons
The original version of ‘Heat’ appears on Whispering Sons latest album ‘Several Others’, out now on [PIAS] Recordings.
Not only did IDLES put their gnashing teeth in one of Whispering Son’s songs, they also invited the band as a special guest on their German dates in support of their new album ‘Crawler’.
'Several Others' marked Whispering Sons first full-length release since their 2018 debut 'Image', which saw them garner early support at press and radio as well as tallying up millions of streams for their dark and unique blend of experimental and frenetic post-punk. Similarly, prior to lockdown, their infamously ferocious live shows had also seen them begin to firmly cement themselves as a must-see live band playing alongside the likes of The Murder Capital, Patti Smith, The Soft Moon and Croatian Amor.
Catch Whispering Sons live: whisperingsons.com/tour
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