Idlewild will release their first album in six years on 3rd October 2025 via V2 Records.
The self-titled record, ‘Idlewild', will be the band's first since their 2019 album ‘Interview Music'. The first single from the record is ‘Stay Out Of Place', a song that has all the innate warmth and melodic immediacy that has made them such a beloved act across the years.
Premiered by Steve Lamacq on his BBC 6 Music show, frontman Roddy Woomble had the following to say about the themes behind it:
“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…”
Produced by Rod Jones (who also mixed the record) and Idlewild, ‘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.
“We’re looking back without being nostalgic — we were thinking about all the songs we’d made and the new songs we were making,” he observes. “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 be released on CD, standard black LP and two different limited colour vinyl editions. You can pre-order the album now.
The track listing for ‘Idlewild' is:
- Stay Out Of Place
- Like I Had Before
- It's Not The First Time
- (I Can't Help) Back Then You Found Me
- The Mirror Still
- Make It Happen
- I Wish I Wrote It Down
- Permanent Colours
- Writers Of The Present Time
- End With Sunrise
The band will play a clutch of festival dates across the summer, before touring in support of the new album in October. Catch Idlewild live on the following dates:
July
27th – Deer Shed Festival, Thirsk
September
13th – Black Isle Calling, Inverness
October
10th – Boilershop, Newcastle
11th – Project House, Leeds
12th – Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
14th – The Junction, Cambridge
15th – O2 Academy, Bristol
17th – Koko, London (SOLD OUT)
18th – New Century Hall, Manchester
December
5th – Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen (SOLD OUT)
6th – LiveHouse, Dundee
7th – Barrowland, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)
January (2026)
2nd – 5th – Rockaway Beach, Bognor Regis
