Stress On The Sky

Jumped on the indies red before it sells out. 

Odd that I haven't seen this posted just got tickets for the show at the Kentish Town Forum.

Here's the blurb:
Having taken a break in 2010 (the previous fifteen years seeing them turn from raucous cult curiosity to chart bothering national treasures) Friendship and the bind of their creativity brought Idlewild back together for 2015’s Everything Ever Written. With it, came critical praise, an album in the top 20, and the band selling out venues as large as they ever had. With new members Luciano Rossi and Andrew Mitchell on board, Roddy Woomble, guitarist Rod Jones and drummer Colin Newton felt a renewed sense of purpose. So much so that the week that Everything Ever Written was released, they were already back at the drawing board to start work on what would become the bold step sidewards, album Interview Music.
Inspired, they later decamped at the end at the end of a US tour in 2016 to Los Angeles to flesh out their ideas, but it would be some years before they set themselves up at Jones’ own Edinburgh studio to finish the record. Before finishing the album, the band performed a run of shows to celebrate the anniversary for their seminal record The Remote Part. One of those shows would see them meet up once again with the producer of that record and 100 Broken Windows, Dave Eringa, who would provide Idlewild with the grounding they needed to finish Interview Music. “Dave produced five songs on the album, but also brought a focus back to the band, and actually made us finish it!” admits Woomble “He made it sound like us,”
This is no more apparent than on opener Dream Variations; with its echoing, fever-dream melody, chiming fizzing riff, and vocal harmonies, before taking a surprise left-turn and drifting into a waltz-like trance. Much like the rest of the record, it has the indie-rock DNA of the band, but mutated in new and strange ways. Same Things Twice takes the fire of the heavier highlights like A Modern Way Of Letting Go or Little Discourage, but carries it with a more mature grace. Then I Almost Didn’t Notice and Mount Analogue make for record’s centre-pieces as playful, adventurous and strange – driven by abandon but still loyal to all that you want from Idlewild; not least for Woomble’s lyrics. Here you’ll find another tapestry of riddles written to “celebrate vagueness”. “What’s really important about Idlewild is that we are basically punk rock kids,” concludes Woomble. “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. That’s principally what the band still do. I’m not a kid rolling around screaming into a microphone on the floor anymore, but that ideal is still at our core.”
 
1. Dream Variations
2. There's a Place for Everything
3. Interview Music
4. All These Words
5. You Wear It Secondhand
6. Same Things Twice
7. I Almost Didn't Notice
8. Miracles
9. Mount Analogue
10. Forever New
11. Bad Logic
12. Familiar to Ignore
13. Lake Martinez
 
Available signed direct from the band on black, unsigned black and indie exclusive red /500. There was a clear with green splatter I believe but that sold out. Due out 5th April.

Indie/Standard: https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/music/idlewild-interview-music
Signed copies: https://idlewild.tmstor.es/
US orders: https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/idlewild-interview-music
 
 
First track and album opener:
 

Big Joyous Celebration is a fantastic package if you ever get around to picking it up. I love the shit out of that record.

Well after spending a day listening to all the teen suicide stuff and A Whole Fucking Lifetime Of This using my so called "restraint" I put in an order for a copy of each APC album. 

Might end up going back n picking up the teen suicide bundles they have god knows I'm tempted.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

100% agree with you. I was assuming @brandy was just asking about the ECW album.

Not really Flenser news but Planning For Burial is putting out a new drone cd through Thom's own imprint Glowing Windows, figured some of you Flenser heads might appreciate the heads up. Available here:

https://planningforburial.bigcartel.com/product/planning-for-burial-continued-cd-gwr11
 
Also next preview track for Elizabeth Color Wheel will be dropping soon according to Flenser's instagram.

Pretty sure the membership versions will indeed get the silk screened covers where the records involved already have them made up for the retail batch but if you have any questions shoot Jonathan an email at:
 
[email protected]
 
He's a real nice guy n normally quick to respond to emails.

I've only really known about the label for 5 or so years when I got into Pity Sex so I haven't really experienced this shift but a label that supports artists who take chances is good in my book

Based on last year's thread, this is around the time that announced and rumored releases really start to pick up (the post below was when the ambassadors were announced last year): 
 

I've only really known about the label for 5 or so years when I got into Pity Sex so I haven't really experienced this shift but a label that supports artists who take chances is good in my book

I've only really known about the label for 5 or so years when I got into Pity Sex so I haven't really experienced this shift but a label that supports artists who take chances is good in my book

The “what happened to RFC/Topshelf?!?” comments are always pretty hilarious. I hear Pure Noise and No Sleep are still catering to  pop punk “kids” and they’d love your business.

Was intrigued because of the discussion in here. Trying to ration money but having listened to the two singles and a bit of the album that preceded this upcoming one these guys are now on my radar. This album isn't on the RFC UK site yet but if it drops there I may grab it.

Was intrigued because of the discussion in here. Trying to ration money but having listened to the two singles and a bit of the album that preceded this upcoming one these guys are now on my radar. This album isn't on the RFC UK site yet but if it drops there I may grab it.

I may be British but I don't actually care for football or handegg

I'll call it Andrew Elliott's low hanging fruit tour. Featuring such world defining observations as:

- When you're a grown up you always have a drawer of spare cables for electronic devices you threw out decades ago JUST IN CASE
- Toasters only have two settings: Charcoal or warm bread
- What's the deal with Airline food?
 
and more
 
tickets $30 a head playing at your local town hall/olive garden parking lot
 

I'll call it Andrew Elliott's low hanging fruit tour. Featuring such world defining observations as:

- When you're a grown up you always have a drawer of spare cables for electronic devices you threw out decades ago JUST IN CASE
- Toasters only have two settings: Charcoal or warm bread
- What's the deal with Airline food?
 
and more
 
tickets $30 a head playing at your local town hall/olive garden parking lot
 

WOAH!!!!!!! omg i never put that together before 
 
you should take this show on the road !!! this material is GOLD

They are decent. Not MOFI, but better than anything released by Enjoy The Ride. I just picked up "...Moon" fyi. 

DHL said Tuesday so if no-one has given word by midweek next week I'll try n speak to Gran Turismo & Long Gone

Dreamt For Light Years is great, Sparklehorse is great, I'd love to see good represses of all that stuff.

Hear, hear. I totally agree. I’m getting ready to drop big money on the LPs but a Sparklehorse Numero box is my wet dream.
 
edit: Oh and I love Dreamt For Light Years. Each record Mark did has its own identity and after pushing his sound so for with It’s a Wonderful Life, the sugary Beatlesesque songs on the last album tie everything together nicely. Return To Me and See the Light are two of my favorite songs from him. Sparklehorse is probably my favorite band ever.