Idlewild

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Idlewild started out at a flat party in Edinburgh in 1995 where founding band members met and found common ground in musical tastes. The starting line up was Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones, Colin Newton and Phil Scanlon. Scanlon was soon replaced by Bob Fairfoull. Appearing in 1996 as an angry band of Scottish punks with Woomble of Carnoustie leading the band, Idlewild eventually achieved commercial recognition by refining their taste for large-scale guitar rock, and combining it with an apparently unknown gift for melody and tenderness.

1996’s Queen of the Troubled Teens was their debut, a self released 7” single that got praised by popular radio one dj Steve Lamaq. 1997 saw their next single “Chandelier”, which was released by Feirce Panda. 1998 saw the release of “Captain” (on Deceptive Records) a mini-album of chaotic punk, which, while achieving a significant fanbase among British teenagers, demonstrated little of the facets that would mark them out as such talented indie-rockers. Some of those were seen on that year’s full-length, “Hope Is Important”. Carrying a more subdued, top 20 hit single “When I Argue I See Shapes”, Idlewild started to make commercial and critical inroads. 2000’s “100 Broken Windows” took this indie-punk sound and refined it, ballads like album closer “The Bronze Medal” were already a million miles from the nihilism and chaos of early tracks such as “Self Healer”. “Windows…” was a substantial success, charting inside the top 15, and drawing early comparisons to R.E.M’s angrier output - as both bands were declared fans of each other at the time, this is unsurprising. (read more)

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Track	Time	Listeners
Add this track to your playlist No Emotion full track	3:04	18,453
Add this track to your playlist I Never Wanted full track	3:54	14,009
Add this track to your playlist (I Am) What I Am Not full track	2:43	13,606
Add this track to your playlist Out of Routine full track	3:09	13,320

Hope Is Important

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist American English	604
–	2	Add this track to your playlist A Modern Way of Letting Go	589
–	3	Add this track to your playlist You Held the World in Your Arms	542
–	4	Add this track to your playlist No Emotion full track	450
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Love Steals Us From Loneliness	437
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Live in a Hiding Place	423
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Little Discourage	361
–	8	Add this track to your playlist These Wooden Ideas	291
1	9	Add this track to your playlist I Never Wanted full track	274
4	10	Add this track to your playlist Out of Routine full track	270
2	11	Add this track to your playlist (I Am) What I Am Not full track	261
2	11	Add this track to your playlist Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)	261
2	13	Add this track to your playlist Tell Me Ten Words full track	260
2	14	Add this track to your playlist Roseability	258
–	15	Add this track to your playlist When I Argue I See Shapes	251
2	16	Add this track to your playlist Century After Century full track	239
4	17	Add this track to your playlist El Capitan	233
2	18	Add this track to your playlist I Understand It	232
1	19	Add this track to your playlist Actually It's Darkness	225
3	20	Add this track to your playlist Stay the Same full track	219

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Top Tracks, Last Six Months

–	1	Add this track to your playlist American English	7,607
–	2	Add this track to your playlist You Held the World in Your Arms	6,950
–	3	Add this track to your playlist A Modern Way of Letting Go	6,736
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Live in a Hiding Place	6,294
–	5	Add this track to your playlist No Emotion full track	5,859
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Love Steals Us From Loneliness	5,760
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Little Discourage	4,573
–	8	Add this track to your playlist These Wooden Ideas	3,850
–	9	Add this track to your playlist I Never Wanted full track	3,769
–	10	Add this track to your playlist (I Am) What I Am Not full track	3,722
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Out of Routine full track	3,609
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Tell Me Ten Words full track	3,588
–	13	Add this track to your playlist When I Argue I See Shapes	3,561
3	14	Add this track to your playlist Stay the Same full track	3,402
2	14	Add this track to your playlist I Understand It	3,402
1	16	Add this track to your playlist Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)	3,384
1	17	Add this track to your playlist Century After Century full track	3,333
4	18	Add this track to your playlist Roseability	3,328
–	19	Add this track to your playlist A Ghost in the Arcade full track	3,100
3	20	Add this track to your playlist I Don't Have the Map full track	3,058
1	21	Add this track to your playlist Actually It's Darkness	3,057
2	22	Add this track to your playlist If It Takes You Home full track	3,037
2	23	Add this track to your playlist Make Another World full track	3,018
–	24	Add this track to your playlist In Competition for the Worst Time full track	2,929
–	25	Add this track to your playlist As If I Hadn't Slept	2,907
1	26	Add this track to your playlist Idea Track full track	2,894
1	27	Add this track to your playlist El Capitan	2,860
1	28	Add this track to your playlist Welcome Home	2,779
1	29	Add this track to your playlist Everything (As It Moves) full track	2,689
–	30	Add this track to your playlist Listen to What You've Got full track	2,649
–	31	Add this track to your playlist Mistake Pageant full track	2,522
–	32	Add this track to your playlist Quiet Crown full track	2,442
4	33	Add this track to your playlist The Bronze Medal	2,392
1	34	Add this track to your playlist Future Works full track	2,355
4	35	Add this track to your playlist Rusty full track	2,348
1	36	Add this track to your playlist Not Just Sometimes But Always	2,345
1	37	Add this track to your playlist I'm a Message	2,343
4	38	Add this track to your playlist I Want a Warning	2,338
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