“Dancer” by Idles featuring LCD Soundsystem

"Dancer" brought Idles back after 2021's Crawler: the lead single from TANGK, released in October 2023 alongside a video and the news of the album. The British band brought company, too, with James Murphy and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem stacked into the backing vocals alongside Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire and Lee Kiernan.

Joe Talbot wrote the words and sings lead, and the five of them share the music. Nigel Godrich produced it with Kenny Beats and Bowen and mixed it himself; Bowen also handles electric guitar, keyboards and electronics, Kiernan plays guitar, Devonshire bass and Beavis drums. The video, which Music Feeds described as the band in mock-ABBA mode, has them strutting toward the camera in white suits, cut against a janitor blasting the track through headphones on a dull shift. Reviews were mostly warm.

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