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Release Date Friday 3rd October 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Immediately, there is the sense of a band in motion, their storied past not an anchor
but a spur. Idlewild's songs offer a string of compelling answers: "Everything adds up
to the present moment, doesn't it?" Woomble asks.
Idlewild have been a lot of different things. They were a teenage punk band, slinging
buzzsaw riffs and barbed refrains, before becoming one of the most compelling
mainstream rock groups of their generation. With 2019's Interview Music, they made
sprawling art-pop. On Idlewild, they welcome each of these past selves into the room.
Work on a follow- up to Interview Music was initially planned to begin immediately
after the band wrapped up touring, but the pandemic put things into a skid. Touring
the 20th anniversary of The Remote Part in 2022 was a visceral reminder of where
they'd been and a prompt for what might come next.
They assembled songs that celebrated pop hooks and livewire distortion, as well as
expressive interplay. Writing continued at Post Electric Studio in Edinburgh and the
Isle of Iona Library, before a short, sharp burst of recording in early 2025.
The result is a lean, focused document -- 10 tracks that get in and out in 30 minutes
and change. With Jones engineering and mixing, the production refects a
collaborative, in-house approach. "We were referencing ourselves... realising that we
had a 'sound'," Woomble says. Facing forward, not back, Idlewild captures beauty,
nuance, and clarity from three decades of sound and feeling -- spontaneous,
purposeful, and unmistakably them.
Tracks: Stay Out Of Place / Like I Had Before / It's Not The First Time / (I Can't
Help) Back Then You Found Me / The Mirror Still / Make It Happen / I Wish I Wrote It
Down / Permanent Colours / Writers Of The Present Time / End With Sunrise
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