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Track List
01) Collect Yourself
02) Come on Ghost
03) So Many Things to Decide
04) Nothing I Can Do About It
05) Every Little Means Trust
06) (Use It) If You Can Use It
07) Like a Clown
08) On Another Planet
09) All Things Different
10) Radium Girl
11) Left Like Roses
12) Utopia
01) Collect Yourself
02) Come on Ghost
03) So Many Things to Decide
04) Nothing I Can Do About It
05) Every Little Means Trust
06) (Use It) If You Can Use It
07) Like a Clown
08) On Another Planet
09) All Things Different
10) Radium Girl
11) Left Like Roses
12) Utopia
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4:47
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First Released
2015
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"Everything Ever Written" is the seventh full-length studio album by Scottish indie rock band Idlewild, released on February 16, 2015 on Empty Words Records. Produced by guitarist Rod Jones, the album was recorded after a lengthy hiatus, during which the future of the band was uncertain. The album is the first to feature keyboardist Luciano Rossi and guitarist and bassist Andrew Mitchell.
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Firstly it’s worth dispelling any nagging notions that this is a by-the-numbers cash-in comeback record. It doesn’t centre around a particularly catchy single nor does it attempt to revisit fan favourite moments of the past. In fact it is a genuine progression for what feels, from the first moments of surging guitar on ‘Collect Yourself’ to the closing shudder of melancholic piano on ‘Utopia’ like a band revitalised, newly confident and assured in their art.
Everything Ever Written is, then, a genre-traversing, surprising, melodic, poetic, anthemic record with heart, smarts and soul. It may not recapture the Fugazi-fuelled fire of their youths; it may not scale the obviously commercial heights of their mid-period – but it certainly lays to rest any ideas of a band lost to complacency or confusion. The focus is there, the execution is there. It’s a record that delivers, satisfies, challenges and is occasionally sublime. So now, go back to the opening sentence of this review and replace ‘were once’ with a simple ‘are’.
Reviewed by Matthew Slaughter for drownedinsound.com.
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"Everything Ever Written" is the seventh full-length studio album by Scottish indie rock band Idlewild, released on February 16, 2015 on Empty Words Records. Produced by guitarist Rod Jones, the album was recorded after a lengthy hiatus, during which the future of the band was uncertain. The album is the first to feature keyboardist Luciano Rossi and guitarist and bassist Andrew Mitchell.
User Album Review
Firstly it’s worth dispelling any nagging notions that this is a by-the-numbers cash-in comeback record. It doesn’t centre around a particularly catchy single nor does it attempt to revisit fan favourite moments of the past. In fact it is a genuine progression for what feels, from the first moments of surging guitar on ‘Collect Yourself’ to the closing shudder of melancholic piano on ‘Utopia’ like a band revitalised, newly confident and assured in their art.
Everything Ever Written is, then, a genre-traversing, surprising, melodic, poetic, anthemic record with heart, smarts and soul. It may not recapture the Fugazi-fuelled fire of their youths; it may not scale the obviously commercial heights of their mid-period – but it certainly lays to rest any ideas of a band lost to complacency or confusion. The focus is there, the execution is there. It’s a record that delivers, satisfies, challenges and is occasionally sublime. So now, go back to the opening sentence of this review and replace ‘were once’ with a simple ‘are’.
Reviewed by Matthew Slaughter for drownedinsound.com.
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