''Meat'' is the second
extended play
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rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
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band
Idles. The extended play was released on 30 October 2015. The three-year gap between the EP and the previous release
''Welcome'' is, to date, the longest gap between two releases by the band.
The four track EP has been described as a departure of the band's original
post-punk
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sound and an embracement of a more
pub rock and punk-oriented sound. The orchestration of the band's first two albums, ''
Brutalism
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'' and ''
Joy as an Act of Resistance
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'' have been linked to the sound of ''Meat''.
Background
In September 2014, the second track off the EP, "The Idles Chant", was premiered on
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's ''Introducing the West'' session series. The track has been described as a departure from the band's original post-punk roots and contains a more pub rock and punk rock tone.
The first single off the EP, Queens was released a year prior to the EP release. The music video features a naked man wearing a wrestling mask while eating a bowl of hard boiled eggs. The staff of
described the music video as "confusing and disturbing". Laurence Day of ''
'' found the video to be entertaining and the track to be a more punk-oriented track compared to their work on
. In a retrospective review, ''The Fat Angel Sings'' described the track as a cornerstone for Idles as a "brutal entity".
After touring in Spring 2015, the band re-recorded the tracks for their EP, which was announced on 2 October 2015.
said "we are lumps of imperfect meat".
In describing the album in contrast to ''Welcome'', Talbot said in an interview with ''The Line of Best Fit'' that the members of IDLES are "better friends. Our music is more accomplished; in that we're more succinct with our message and sound, plus Bowen's not around to fuck around with pedals as he lives in London now. In short: we're much better and a shit-tonne heavier on record and live."