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Idlewild Release New Single Today

• 28th Sep 2009

Idlewild will be releasing their new single Readers & Writers on Monday, September 28th. The track is taken from their seventh studio album, Post-Electric Blues, which will be released on Monday 5th October.

'Post-Electric Blues' is an indie-rock album of Boss-like bombast, flecked with 70s synths and dashes of brass. It's an album that leaps from Fleetwood Mac epic folk/rock/pop peaks into joyous Loch-side sing-a-longs. It's the sound of a deft and defiant band (completed by Rod Jones on guitar, backing vocals, keyboards; Colin Newton on drums, percussion; Allan Stewart on guitar and Gareth Russell on bass), exploring soundscapes whilst finding hooks and generally, genuinely and quite clearly, having a fookin good time.

Lyrically, the punk-rock sloganeering of their earlier work has become a mixture of poignant observational small-world imagery and universal ponder-neering. This isn't all textural wilderness-gazing or woe is me Morrissey-like rambling. There are a few wry lyrics because “sometimes you need some daft lines in there,” explains Roddy, “I don't that think it's possible to have a rock song where every line is perfect, I don't think that's the point of rock music.”