Idlewild: Post Electric Blues

Ha, they were my favorite band all through the '00s, tho I never imagined I'd find anyone praising them on here. I'd urge those '09 posters to give Make Another World another shot. If we're talking about the early albums in terms of emo then that's their (at least partially) pop-punk record. It's got some hooks. In Competition for the Worst Time, No Emotion, Ghost in the Arcade... these are tunes.

Am I the only one who heard (and, uh, helped fund) Everything Ever Written? It was pretty good at best, a bit routine, though I thought "Radium Girl" was great and hinted at the kind of album they could make if they fully embraced wooden ideas, er, pop.

There are some really good songs on ‘Make Another World’.

Agreed. After that one I pretty much tap out - the last album is unbelievably sleepy.

It felt weird to find the new one stocked at the record store yesterday, after years of imports followed by years of crowdfunding. I thought I knew all five people in the U.S. who care about this band. Anyway, I strained to enjoy the last album but Interview Music is requiring no effort: it's fun! Something like the album I was dreaming of in my last post. Plus Roddy using this voice again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJj_D1qnWGY

Weird to see this bumped, I was listening to 100 Broken Windows and The Remote Part this morning. I don't think I've listened to either of them for years. 'You Held the World in Your Arms' sounded to me like one of the best songs of the '00s... I don't remember ever thinking that at the time of its release, as much as I liked it.

While I'm here, here's Idlewild POX:

Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)
Mistake Pageant
Live in a Hiding Place
Out of Routine
Tell Me Ten Words
Love Steals Us from Loneliness
In Competition for the Worst Time
A Ghost in the Arcade
Take Me Back to the Islands
Radium Girl

Out of Routine is one of my all-time favourites