Idlewild

Surge Tracks

• No Emotion
• I Understand It
• Love Steals Us From Lonliness
• A Modern Way of Letting Go
• Live in a Hiding Place
• You Held the World in Your Arms
• Actually It's Darkness
• These Wooden Ideas
• A Little Discourage
• I'm A Message
• When I Argue I See Shapes

Artist Biography

Appearing in 1998 as an angry band of Scottish punks with Roddy Woomble of Carnoustie leading the band, Idlewild eventually achieved commercial recognition by refining their taste for large-scale guitar rock, and combining it with an apparently unknown gift for melody and tenderness.

1998's Captain was their debut release, a mini-album of chaotic punk, which, while achieving a significant fanbase among British teenagers, demonstrated little of the facets that would mark them out as such talented indie-rockers. Some of those were seen on that year's full-length, "Hope Is Important". Carrying a more subdued, top 20 hit single "When I Argue I See Shapes", Idlewild started to make commercial and critical inroads, something cemented by the top 40 success of follow-up, "I'm A Message". 2000's "100 Broken Windows" took this indie-punk sound and refined it, ballads like album closer "The Bronze Medal" were already a million miles from the nihilism and chaos of early tracks such as "Self Healer". "Windows..." was a substantial success, charting inside the top 15, and drawing early comparisons to R.E.M's angrier output - as both bands were declared fans of each other at the time, this is unsurprising.

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Artist Discography

Albums

100 Broken Windows (2000-04-10)
Hope Is Important (1998-10-26)
Make Another World (2007-02-26)
The Remote Part (2002-07-15)
Warnings / Promises (2005-03-07)

EPs

Captain (1998-01-12)
Discourage EP (2001)

Singles

Actually It's Darkness
A Film for the Future (1998-04-27)
American English
A Modern Way of Letting Go (2003-02)
Chandelier (1997-12-01)
El Capitan (2005-07-11)
Everyone Says You're So Fragile (1998-07-13)
I'm a Message
I Understand It
Little Discourage (1999)
Live in a Hiding Place (2002-10)
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (2005)
No Emotion (2007-02-26)
Queen of the Troubled Teens (1997-03)
Roseability (2000)
Satan Polaroid (1998-02-09)
These Wooden Ideas (2000)
When I Argue I See Shapes
You Held the World in Your Arms (2002)

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