Idlewild Announce First Album In Six Years 'Idlewild' With New Single Stay Out Of Place
Monday, 07 July 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Euan Robertson
Idlewild are back with details of their first new album in six years.
The Scottish alt-rock band will release ’Idlewild’ through V2 Records on October 3, following up 2019’s ’Interview Music’, and the subsequent ’Interview Music - Acoustic’ EP in 2020.
Produced by the five-piece with Rod Jones, who also mixed the record, the LP was penned during 2024 at Edinburgh’s Post Electric Studios and the Isle of Iona Library in the Hebrides.
To coincide with the news, the group have shared the record's guitar-driven first single, Stay Out Of Place, which was premiered by Steve Lamacq on his BBC 6 Music show this evening. Frontman Roddy Woomble said:
"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..."
On the album as a whole, he added: "We’re looking back without being nostalgic — we were thinking about all the songs we’d made and the new songs we were making. 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’."
Idlewild will play a number of festivals this summer, including Deer Shed in Yorkshire later this month, before their first UK tour in six years in the autumn. Tickets are on sale.
’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
Idlewild Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Fri July 25 2025 - DUNFERMLINE PJ Molloys
Fri October 10 2025 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Boiler Shop
Sat October 11 2025 - LEEDS Project House
Sun October 12 2025 - WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall
Tue October 14 2025 - CAMBRIDGE Junction
Wed October 15 2025 - BRISTOL O2 Academy Bristol
Fri October 17 2025 - LONDON KOKO
Sat October 18 2025 - MANCHESTER New Century
Fri December 05 2025 - ABERDEEN Beach Ballroom
Sat December 06 2025 - DUNDEE LiveHouse
Sun December 07 2025 - GLASGOW Barrowland
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