Album reviews: Idles' refreshing reboot in Crawlers and Damon Albarn surprises with funk

British-Irish rock quintet Idles have avoided careening into self parody with their fourth album and Damon Albarn reveals a third persona on The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows 

In his new album, Damon Albarn is about as far from Blur or Gorillaz as is imaginable, while Idles have embraced something vaguely adjacent to subtlety in Crawler

Idles: Crawler 

★★★★☆