IDLES have released a new song, ‘Rabbit Run’, which they made for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime caper Caught Stealing. It’s one of four original songs they recorded for its soundtrack, and you can hear it below.
“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,” the British band’s Joe Talbot commented. “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.”
A press release describes IDLES as Darren Aronofsky’s “favourite band.” The filmmaker said, “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.”
Caught Stealing follows Hank Thompson, a former high school baseball star who becomes tangled in a web of organized crime when his punk rock neighbor asks him to watch his cat for a few days. Rob Simonsen, who composed the film’s score, added: “I was really excited by the idea that Darren had for our third project together, which was to write a score for IDLES, using them as our orchestra. They had created original songs for the film, and building a palette that started from their sound – the incredible textures they create through inventive use of feedback, distortion, and pedals – was a really satisfying challenge. Our work with the band was genuinely inspiring. They’re not only extraordinarily talented musicians, but individuals with clear eyes, big hearts, and bold souls.”
IDLES’ most recent LP, TANGK, arrived last year.
