Darren Aronofsky wasn’t able to convince his fiancée to agree with his pick of Idles ‘ scabrous 2017 track “Love Song” for the first dance at their wedding (they compromised on the Cure), but the director got the next best thing. The hard-edged U.K. band — often described as post-punk, a label they tend to reject — provided the soundtrack to his new movie, the thriller Caught Stealing , starring Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz.

Idles contributed five new songs to the film, plus a cover of the Clash’s version of Junior Murvin’s “Police and Thieves,” while also performing every note of composer Rob Simonsen ‘s score. “I couldn’t really find another example, except for Queen with Flash Gordon,” Aronofsky tells Rolling Stone . “The movie needed a house band.”

“The idea was that th

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