Vital Idles

Scottish quartet Vital Idles play an anxious brand of indie pop containing poetic observations laced with deadpan humor. Highly reminiscent of the early <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Rough+Trade%22">Rough Trade</a> roster, their songs express raw emotions through abstract, bare-bones post-punk. Frontwoman Jessica Higgins, Nick Lynch, and Matthew Walkerdine help run Good Press, a Glasgow-based publisher and art book shop, and guitarist Ruari MacLean previously played in noise-pop group <a href="spotify:artist:0x0D2iUnMLaqFfbq0Dum9s">Golden Grrrls</a>, as well as <a href="spotify:artist:7nB7XApMlQSTSJHA3so0tX">Rose McDowall</a>'s band. Vital Idles began playing shows in 2015, and released two cassettes of demos that year. Their debut 7" single, "My Sentiments," appeared in 2016. Edwin Stevens (aka <a href="spotify:artist:7kVrIfAjhJ1kNpx8lKDzzb">Irma Vep</a>) and MacLean engineered the band's debut full-length, Left Hand, which was released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Upset+the+Rhythm%22">Upset the Rhythm</a> in 2018. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi