Idlewild have shared another single from their upcoming album, their first in six years.
It's Not The First Time embraces the Edinburgh band's signature alt-rock sound with layered guitars and melodic hooks. Reminiscent of material from the group's 2002 album, 'The Remote Part', it marks the second preview of their self-titled LP, due out on via V2 Records on October 3. Frontman Roddy Woomble said:
"Memory is a broken net, a leaky barrel. You exist in a series of nows, and there is an art to the obvious – all great truths are obvious truths.
"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."
The group shared details of the follow-up to 2019’s 'Interview Music' earlier this month, along with the first single, Stay Out Of Place.
They'll play Deer Shed festival in Yorkshire this weekend, before their first UK tour in six years in the autumn. Tickets are on sale now.
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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