Idlewild announce forthcoming self-titled album as first in six years

Speaking about the new single, frontman Roddy Woomble says: "Walt Whitman was right, we do contain ‘multitudes’ – there is more than one “us” in there – we’re choosing a voice from among the many voices. This is especially interesting in a band context, because it's not just one voice, but five voices collaborating, over time. We arrange the world in our own order, but sometimes you’ve got to shake up expectations and forget about the instructions - I suppose that's what I'm getting at with 'Stay Out Of Place'. It felt like a good starting point and (re)introduction to Idlewild 2025..."

Idlewild is the tenth studio album from the group and was written over 2024 at Post Electric Studios in Edinburgh and the Isle of Iona Library in the Hebrides, and follows 2019's Interview Music.

“We’re looking back without being nostalgic — we were thinking about all the songs we’d made and the new songs we were making,” Woomble observes. “For the first time we were referencing ourselves, not in a nostalgic way, in a positive, creative way, realising that we had a ‘sound’ and the songs we were writing should celebrate that. After it was all recorded and done, it felt fitting to simply title it 'Idlewild'.”

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