The Mary Wallopers share video for new single 'The Idler'

In the run-up to the release of their second album, Irish Rock N Roll, The Mary Wallopers have offered another taste of what to expect from the highly anticipated project, with a new single, 'The Idler'.

The Dundalk group describe 'The Idler' – one of three original Mary Wallopers compositions on Irish Rock N Roll – as a song "about people misplacing their frustration on others."

“The song was written in response to the scapegoating and vilification of ordinary people just doing what they need to do in order to keep struggling through life," explains band member Sean McKenna, "rarely harming anyone, meanwhile those in positions of power, the ones who often create or uphold such situations, are held in high esteem and regarded as pillars of the community..."

Irish Rock N Roll is the 'Album of the Month' in the current issue of Hot Press, scoring a nine-star review.

"The Mary Wallopers’ crosshairs are aimed exactly where they need to be," the review reads, "denouncing landlords, the clergy, 'Blueshirts', and society’s tendency to punch down instead of up – calling out, on ‘The Idler’, the person 'who forgets their history, and says ‘Ireland is full…''

"Although the unapologetic messing has gone nowhere, Irish Rock N Roll is an essential step-up for one of the most defiant yet inherently honest forces in modern Irish music," the review concludes.

The stripped-back, black-and-white music video for 'The Idler' was directed and edited by Sean McMahon, and stars Sean McKenna. Watch it in full below:

Irish Rock N Roll is out this Friday, October 13. Pre-order the album here.