Idlewild release new single, "It's Not The First Time"

"Having been a touring band for thirty years we’ve had our fair share of ups and downs. So for every wet and cold Tuesday night in Chemnitz in Germany supporting a band and playing to a half empty room of disinterested people talking, or maybe a Thursday in Lawrence, Kansas when six people have paid in on the door and you’ve been on tour for two months already - there’s a sold out night at the Glasgow Barrowlands, playing to two thousand people who know all the words, or getting the opportunity to play packed headline gigs in Tokyo or New York. To travel and meet great people. The point is amidst all this you have to appreciate the moment for whatever it is showing you. And that’s the idea the song is trying to get across," explains frontman Roddy Woomble.

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.