IDLES drop new track "Rabbit Run"

IDLES’ ‘TANGK’’ era has been a triumph as the band achieved their second UK #1 album, earned threeGrammy Award nominations (Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance), and earned international, across-the-board acclaim. They’ve excelled on the road too, with a phenomenal Other Stageheadline set at Glastonbury, which saw NME’s five-star review state that they made “a claim to headline the Pyramid in the future.” Elsewhere they headlined Truck and End of the Road, and completed a UK headline tour that saw them perform to 20,000 people in London alone over two nights at Alexandra Palace - and there’s still this weekend’s Bristol Block Party shows left to come.

Yet as that era draws to a close, it’s still opening up remarkable creativity opportunities for the band. Drawing inspiration from the gritty energy of the 1990s New York punk scene that permeates Academy Award nomineeDarren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime caper ‘Caught Stealing’, IDLES have contributed four original tracks to the project’s soundtrack as well as having recorded the full film score composed by Rob Simonsen (‘The Whale’, ‘Deadpool’, ‘Wolverine’). Also included is a striking cover of the Junior Marvin-penned ‘Police and Thieves’, a song famously covered by The Clash on their 1977 self-titled debut album.

‘Caught Stealing’ which will be released theatrically by Sony Pictures on 29th August, and its accompanying soundtrack album will be issued that same day via Partisan Records.

IDLES and Darren Aronofsky (‘Requiem for a Dream’, ‘The Wrestler’, ‘Black Swan’) quickly formed a creative kinship, united by a deep mutual respect for each other’s work. When Aronofsky began developing ‘Caught Stealing’ he turned to his favourite band to shape the film’s sonic identity.

Together, IDLES, Aronofsky and Simonsen formed a uniquely exhilarating collaboration, pushing and pulling from one another's areas of expertise to elevate the greater whole. Rabbit Run is a lean, anxious punk ripper that starts in a panic and ends in defiance. Fueled by minimal, motorik drums and distorted guitars, it mirrors the film’s central theme of confronting fear head-on. IDLES frontman Joe Talbot barrels through like a man being chased, until he turns and charges straight into the fire. You can stream, Rabbit Run on your preferred platform HERE, and watch the official video below:

Joe Talbot says, “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. 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.”

Darren Aronofsky comments, “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.”

Rob Simonsen adds, "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."

In ‘Caught Stealing’, Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favourite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hankattempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…

‘Caught Stealing’ was directed by Aronofsky from a screenplay by Charlie Huston, based on his book of the same name. The film stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito Martínez Ocasio and Carol Kane. Watch the official trailer nelow:

Completed by Mark Bowen (lead guitar), Lee Kiernan (rhythm guitar), Adam Devonshire (bass) and Jon Beavis (drums), IDLES will play two celebratory homecoming summer Block Party shows at Bristol’s Queen Square on August 1st and 2nd - their only UK headline shows of 2025. They will then play select shows inEurope before heading to North America for shows with My Chemical Romance and Deftones as well as sets at Riot Fest and Shaky Knees. Limited tickets for the first Bristol show and a list of all their upcoming gigs are available HERE.

‘Caught Stealing Official Soundtrack’ tracklist:

1. ‘6th and A’

2. ‘Doom’

3. ‘Kim’s Video’

4. ‘Tompkins Square Park’

5. ‘5th Floor Walk Up’

6. ‘Walk/Don’t Walk’

7. ‘Loisaida’

8. ‘Cheerleader’

9. ‘Coper’

10. ‘Flushing, Queens’

11. ‘Police & Thieves’