Idlewild have introduced a brand new self-titled album set for launch on October 3 and shared its lead single ‘Keep Out Of Place’.
The Edinburgh band’s first new materials since their 2019 album ‘Interview Music’, ‘Keep Out Of Place’ is an anthemic quantity in step with the melodic alt-rock of their latest output, and it was premiered by Steve Lamacq on his BBC 6 Music present this night.
Frontman Roddy Woomble mentioned of the monitor: “Walt Whitman was proper, we do include ‘multitudes’ – there may be a couple of ‘us’ in there – we’re selecting a voice from among the many many voices.
“That is particularly attention-grabbing in a band context, as a result of it’s not only one voice, however 5 voices collaborating, over time. We organize the world in our personal order, however typically you’ve acquired to shake up expectations and neglect concerning the directions – I suppose that’s what I’m getting at with ‘Keep Out Of Place’. It felt like a superb start line and (re)introduction to Idlewild 2025…”
‘Idlewild’ is the band’s tenth album, they usually wrote it final yr at Submit Electrical Studios in Edinburgh and the Isle of Iona Library within the Hebrides, bringing in parts of their earlier work, from their earlier indie punk to the folk-rock of 2005’s ‘Warnings/Guarantees’.
Woomble added: “We’re trying again with out being nostalgic — we have been excited about all of the songs we’d made and the brand new songs we have been making,” he observes. “For the primary time we have been referencing ourselves, not in a nostalgic method, in a constructive, inventive method, realising that we had a ‘sound’ and the songs we have been writing ought to have fun that. After it was all recorded and carried out, it felt becoming to easily title it ‘Idlewild’.”
‘Idlewild’ can be launched on CD, customary black LP, and two totally different restricted color vinyl editions. You’ll be able to pre-order the album right here.
The band have gotten a variety of tour dates throughout the following few months, too. Most notably, there’s an already-announced run of exhibits in October simply after their self-titled album comes out – purchase tickets right here.
Idlewild’s UK tour dates are:
July
27 – Deer Shed Competition, Thirsk
September
13 – Black Isle Calling, Inverness
October
10 – Boiler Store, Newcastle
11 – Challenge Home, Leeds
12 – College of Wolverhampton at The Wulfrun Corridor, Wolverhampton
14 – Junction, Cambridge
15 – O2 Academy, Bristol
17 – KOKO, London
18 – New Century Corridor, Manchester
December
5 – Seashore Ballroom, Aberdeen
6 – LiveHouse, Dundee
7 – Barrowland, Glasgow
January (2026)
2nd – fifth – Rockaway Seashore, Bognor Regis
Within the years between ‘Interview Music’ and ‘Idlewild’, Woomble has been busy with this solo profession, placing out the albums ‘Lo! Soul’ and ‘Someday Throughout The Night time We Fell Off The Map’, and he launched a brand new undertaking beneath the identify ‘Virtually Nothing’ in 2023, too.
Forward of the discharge of ‘Interview Music’ in 2019, Woomble mentioned: “What’s actually necessary about Idlewild is that we’re mainly punk rock youngsters. Nobody ever taught us easy methods to play something. We fashioned a band and we discovered. In our personal method. We have been impressed by the bands we noticed simply getting up on stage, making a noise and exchanging concepts, and making an attempt to alter your concepts.”
NME gave the album 4 stars, saying: “Free from business constraints, Idlewild are reinvigorated. ‘Interview Music’ is their greatest work in 17 years. They appear pushed by the enjoyment of constructing music nice once more. It received’t change the world, however this document is a superb world all of their very own.”
