Idles - When the Lights Come On

I don't think that Idles will ever top this one. The culmination of staggering, convincing, desperate exasperation in the second verse is such a strong moment.

This one is also rather simple musically. I'm not sure, but I think it's in D major (not sure, comment with an explanation why it's not or is). The guitars play a lot of ambient sounds throughout, mostly the verse. There's ascending and descending distorted lines, pick scrapes, all drenched in reverb. Sounds great, but I couldn't tab them. Just improvise.

I like to jam along to this with a backing track. If there's interest, I can post that one too (see the tutorial video posted below for a sound sample).

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