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DiS has a chat with one of our most beloved bands about their fantastic forthcoming album
Everything Ever Written. Before we crack on to find out more about Idlewild s eighth record, here s an exclusive stream of new song from it entitled Come On Ghost .
Once upon a time there was a band called
Idlewild (or as a certain pedigree of fan would have it
iDLEWiLD) they had cult-like obsessed fans and a proper character arc. They started the story as a scrappy Dischord-records-obsessed indie-hardcore four piece who fell in love with melody, wrote a couple of disjointed popcore masterpieces that made people shout “SHAPES!” really loudly at unexpected times (“SHAPES!”) went on a major R.E.M. binge that made them a sort-of-commercial property and the next-big-indie-thing, complete with proper ballads and emotive bits, and played Glastonbury as the sun set; still being spiky and brilliant live and shouting “SHAPES!” There was ‘American English’, ‘You Held The World I