Leak Of The Day: Idlewild Try To Lose Their Outcast Status

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Leak Of The Day: Idlewild Try To Lose Their Outcast Status

We asked, and we have received: Here's the new Idlewild single, "If It Takes You Home," from next month's Make Another World. The Scottish band hasn't landed a U.S. deal since parting ways with Capitol—or at least not one that we're aware of—so who knows when this will make its way to our shores. We'll have a further report on World after we get in a few spins, but "Home" is one of their less Stipe-swiping numbers, and punchiner than anything on 2005's Warning/Promises.

~~Idlewild - If It Takes You Home~~ [MP3, link expired]
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2:13 PM on Thu Jan 4 2007
By Brian Raftery
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by Mick Kraut at 03:07 PM on 01/04/07
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Sounds much closer to THE REMOTE PART...

If this record is geared in that direction, I will be excited to hear it...
by cutshallow at 03:10 PM on 01/04/07
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Without a doubt, one of the most underrated bands of the decade so far. 100 Broken Windows & The Remote Part are both brilliant.
by musicquizking at 04:51 PM on 01/04/07
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I think Vagrant Records would be a good home for them here. They signed up The Futureheads and The Lemonheads in the last year.
by Chris Molanphy at 07:31 PM on 01/04/07
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I always felt the R.E.M. comparison on these guys was a little facile. I hear elements of '90s quiet-loud, a Nirvana/Sonic Youth thing run through a Posies machine. I dunno, is it just me?

Whatever...word on Broken Windows and Remote Part kicking ass, and they deserve a U.S. record deal, obviously.
by joe bananas at 07:41 PM on 01/04/07
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this is an encouraging return to form; Warnings/Promises was bad news.

also, i heart these guys, but roddy woomble writes some bad, bad lyrics.
by Brian Raftery at 09:03 PM on 01/04/07
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I dunno, dennisobell, the R.E.M. echo is always there for me; there's one song on this record that I actually thought was from a cover of some Warner-era R.E.M. song I'd forgotten about.

On a vaguely related sidenote I saw Stipe and co. at Madison Square Garden on the last tour, and rushing toward the VIP section at the end was Mr. Roddy "Da Warble" Woomble himself.
by hndinglove at 02:34 AM on 01/05/07
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i believe idlewild may be on sanctuary here now; that's the label releasing roddy's solo album that came out last year in the UK. which is nice, pastoral folky music.

fucking great band. underrated as all get out, super great live. and the REM thing *is* totally always there. i've always called them a mix of REM/smiths/husker du.