Idlewild - Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997 - 2007
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Album Review
Release date: 01 October 2007
Idlewild: 'Scottish Fiction: Best Of 1997-2007'
'This traces their descent from brilliant to bland'
Funny band, Idlewild. Starting life in the mid-’90s as a thrilling, lo-fi indebted noisepop group with a brilliant mini-album in tow (1998’s ‘Captain’), the Scottish outfit then polished up and became a quaintly glossy indie pop band with ‘Hope Is Important’ in late 1998. Then they decided they’d like to be REM (on 2000’s ‘100 Broken Windows’), then Coldplay (on 2002’s...
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- You Held The World In Your Arms
- No Emotion
- Roseability
- When I Argue I See Shapes
- Love Steals Us From Loneliness
- American English
- These Wooden Ideas
- El Capitan
- A Modern Way Of Letting Go
- Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror)
- I'm A Message
- In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction
- I Understand It
- Little Discourage
- As If I Hadn't Slept
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