{"id":246522,"date":"2025-07-07T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246522\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:47:09","slug":"idlewild-announce-first-album-in-six-years-with-soul-stirring-single-stay-out-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246522\/","title":{"rendered":"Idlewild announce first album in six years with soul-stirring single ‘Stay Out Of Place’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Idlewild<\/a> have announced a new self-titled album set for release on October 3 and shared its lead single \u2018Stay Out Of Place\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Edinburgh band\u2019s first new material since their 2019 album \u2018Interview Music<\/a>\u2019, \u2018Stay Out Of Place\u2019 is an anthemic number in line with the melodic alt-rock of their recent output, and it was premiered by Steve Lamacq on his BBC 6 Music show this evening.<\/p>\n

Frontman Roddy Woomble<\/a> said of the track: \u201cWalt Whitman was right, we do contain \u2018multitudes\u2019 \u2013 there is more than one \u2018us\u2019 in there \u2013 we\u2019re choosing a voice from among the many voices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is especially interesting in a band context, because it\u2019s not just one voice, but five voices collaborating, over time. We arrange the world in our own order, but sometimes you\u2019ve got to shake up expectations and forget about the instructions \u2013 I suppose that\u2019s what I\u2019m getting at with \u2018Stay Out Of Place\u2019. It felt like a good starting point and (re)introduction to Idlewild 2025\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018Idlewild\u2019 is the band\u2019s tenth album, and they wrote it last year at Post Electric Studios in Edinburgh and the Isle of Iona Library in the Hebrides, bringing in elements of their previous work, from their earlier indie punk to the folk-rock of 2005\u2019s \u2018Warnings\/Promises\u2019.<\/p>\n

Woomble added: \u201cWe\u2019re looking back without being nostalgic \u2014 we were thinking about all the songs we\u2019d made and the new songs we were making,\u201d he observes. \u201cFor the first time we were referencing ourselves, not in a nostalgic way, in a positive, creative way, realising that we had a \u2018sound\u2019 and the songs we were writing should celebrate that. After it was all recorded and done, it felt fitting to simply title it \u2018Idlewild\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018Idlewild\u2019 will be released on CD, standard black LP, and two different limited colour vinyl editions. You can pre-order the album here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The band have got a range of tour dates across the next few months, too. Most notably, there\u2019s an already-announced run of shows in October<\/a> just after their self-titled album comes out \u2013 buy tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Idlewild\u2019s UK tour dates are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

July
27 \u2013 Deer Shed Festival, Thirsk<\/b><\/p>\n

September<\/strong>
13 \u2013 Black Isle Calling, Inverness<\/strong><\/p>\n

October
<\/b>10 \u2013 Boiler Shop, Newcastle\u00a0<\/strong>
11 \u2013 Project House, Leeds\u00a0<\/strong>
12 \u2013 University of Wolverhampton at The Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton<\/strong>
14 \u2013 Junction, Cambridge<\/strong>
15 \u2013 O2 Academy, Bristol\u00a0<\/strong>
17 \u2013 KOKO, London\u00a0<\/strong>
18 \u2013 New Century Hall, Manchester<\/strong><\/p>\n

December
<\/b>5 \u2013 Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen<\/strong>
6 \u2013 LiveHouse, Dundee<\/strong>
7 \u2013 Barrowland, Glasgow<\/strong><\/p>\n

January (2026)
<\/b>2nd \u2013 5th \u2013 Rockaway Beach, Bognor Regis<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the years between \u2018Interview Music\u2019 and \u2018Idlewild\u2019, Woomble has been busy with this solo career, putting out the albums \u2018Lo! Soul\u2019 and \u2018Sometime During The Night We Fell Off The Map\u2019, and he launched a new project under the name \u2018Almost Nothing\u2019<\/a> in 2023, too.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the release of \u2018Interview Music\u2019 in 2019<\/a>, Woomble said: \u201cWhat\u2019s really important about Idlewild is that we are basically punk rock kids. No one ever taught us how to play anything. We formed a band and we learned. In our own way. We were inspired by the bands we saw just getting up on stage, making a noise and exchanging ideas, and trying to change your ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

NME gave the album four stars, saying<\/a>: \u201cFree from commercial constraints, Idlewild are reinvigorated. \u2018Interview Music\u2019 is their best work in 17 years. They seem driven by the joy of making music great again. It won\u2019t change the world, but this record is a wonderful world all of their own.\u201d<\/p>\n