Idles share ‘Rabbit Run’ from new Darron Aronofsky movie ‘Caught Stealing’
Idles have shared new single ‘Rabbit Run’, which will appear on their soundtrack for the new Darren Aronofsky movie, Caught Stealing.
In May, the trailer for the upcoming movie starring Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz arrived. Shortly afterwards, a snippet of ‘Rabbit Run’ was released on a separate Instagram reel to promote Caught Stealing, and now, after two months of anticipation, it has finally arrived.
The movie, set to be released on August 29th, 2025, stars Butler as Hank Thompson, who is described as a “high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay”. Meanwhile, Kravitz plays his girlfriend, who works at a local dive bar.
Thompson’s life is turned on its head when Russ, played by Matt Smith, recruits Hank to look after his cat temporarily, and suddenly, he “finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters”.
Idles recorded the movie’s score and contributed four original songs to the upcoming soundtrack, which is also set for release on August 29th. Rob Simonsen composed the soundtrack.
Idles singer Joe Talbot said in a statement of the project, “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.”
The Bristolian continued: “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.”
Meanwhile, the director said: “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.”
Simonsen was also full of praise for Idles, stating, “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.”
This weekend, Idles return home to Bristol for two huge shows at Queen Square, which mark their only headline shows of 2025 in the UK.
The full soundtrack tracklist, including a cover of ‘Police and Thieves’, is listed below.
Idles – Caught Stealing Official Soundtrack tracklist:
- ‘6th and A’
- ‘Doom’
- ‘Kim’s Video’
- ‘Tompkins Square Park’
- ‘5th Floor Walk Up’
- ‘Walk/Don’t Walk’
- ‘Loisaida’
- ‘Cheerleader’
- ‘Coper’
- ‘Flushing, Queens’
- ‘Police & Thieves’
- ‘Bay 15’
- ‘Blessings and Successes’
- ‘Alphabet City’
- ‘Under the EL’
- ‘Rabbit Run’
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