Idlewild return with self-titled album and soaring new single ‘Stay Out Of Place’

Scottish alt-rock legends Idlewild return with their first album in six years, out 3rd October. Hear lead single ‘Stay Out Of Place’ and find full UK tour details here

by whynow |
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Idlewild are back. The beloved Scottish outfit have announced their first album in six years, a self-titled release landing on 3rd October.

It’s the band’s tenth studio LP and their first since 2019’s Interview Music, arriving alongside the rousing lead single ‘Stay Out Of Place’.

Premiered by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music, ‘Stay Out Of Place’ is a warm and melodic cut that plays to Idlewild’s strengths, namely: sharp songwriting, poetic introspection, and a sound that somehow always managed to feel both familiar and searching.

Frontman Roddy Woomble describes the track as a reckoning with inner multiplicity: “Walt Whitman was right, we do contain ‘multitudes’… sometimes you’ve got to shake up expectations and forget about the instructions.” He calls it a reintroduction, a fitting jump-off for the new record.

Written throughout 2024 and recorded between Post Electric Studios in Edinburgh and the Isle of Iona Library in the Hebrides, Idlewild is both a reflection and a celebration.

Produced by guitarist Rod Jones and the band themselves, the album draws on the many phases of their nearly 30-year career: the youthful post-punk snarl of Hope Is Important, the widescreen ambition of The Remote Part, the textured experimentation of Interview Music – it’s all here, refracted through hard-won chemistry and fresh eyes.

“For the first time we were referencing ourselves,” says Woomble. “Not in a nostalgic way, in a positive, creative way…After it was all recorded and done, it felt fitting to simply title it Idlewild.“

The album will be released on CD, standard black vinyl, and two limited-edition coloured LP variants, with pre-orders open now. Full tracklisting is below.

Idlewild will support the record with a run of UK tour dates this autumn, kicking off in Newcastle on 10th October and hitting major cities including Leeds, Bristol, and London, with sold-out dates already in Aberdeen, Glasgow, and London. Festival appearances and a January 2026 slot at Rockaway Beach in Bognore Regis round out a strong live return.

‘Idlewild’ Tracklist:

  1. Stay Out Of Place
  2. Like I Had Before
  3. It’s Not The First Time
  4. (I Can’t Help) Back Then You Found Me
  5. The Mirror Still
  6. Make It Happen
  7. I Wish I Wrote It Down
  8. Permanent Colours
  9. Writers Of The Present Time
  10. End With Sunrise

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Idlewild UK Tour Dates:

July
27 – Deer Shed Festival, Thirsk

September
13 – Black Isle Calling, Inverness

October
10 – Boilershop, Newcastle
11 – Project House, Leeds
12 – Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
14 – The Junction, Cambridge
15 – O2 Academy, Bristol
17 – Koko, London (SOLD OUT)
18 – New Century Hall, Manchester

December
5 – Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen (SOLD OUT)
6 – LiveHouse, Dundee
7 – Barrowland, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)

January 2026
2–5 – Rockaway Beach, Bognor Regis

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