Idlewild
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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.
The result was a lean, focused document -- 10 tracks that get in and out in 30 minutes and change. With Jones engineering and mixing, the production reflects 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.
Released: October 2025
Cat: VVNL5070LPE
Label: V2 LABEL
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Tracklist
1. Stay Out Of Place
2. Like I Had Before
3. It's Not The First Time
4. (I Can't Help) Back Then You Found Me
5. The Mirror Still
6. Make It Happen
7. I Wish I Wrote It Down
8. Permanent Colours
9. Writers Of The Present Time
10. End With Sunrise