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"Interview Music" is the eighth full-length studio album by Scottish indie rock band Idlewild, recorded in Los Angeles and Scotland with producer Dave Eringa and released on April 5th, 2019 on the Empty Words Records label.
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Interview Music sees the Edinburgh band work once again with producer Dave Eringa and the result is an album that is part spoken word, part spectral indie-rock and shrugs off the weight of four years' silence with ease.
Interview Music is melodic, adventurous, and full of lyrics which seamlessly drift from carrying the rich weight of human experience and the gossamer-fine tapestry of exploration. Dream Variations sets the tone immediately with a mix of familiarly playful riffs and vocal harmonies, before taking a sudden turn into a cloudbank of drifting melody that coasts unapologetically into strange, miraculous new territory. This is Idlewild, but not as you know them.
Alongside the anthems on the album – songs such as Forever New that will have commercial appeal – Interview Music contains a sense of maturity and introspection, infusing the record with a quality that can only come from artists with a defined sense of who they are at their core. In speaking of dreams and the entanglement of our deepest desires with our realities, Idlewild are transcending their indie-punk roots, delivering a universally relatable story that will appeal to staunch fans and new listeners alike.
Reviewed by Hannah Clark for theskinny.co.uk.
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