![]() ![]() Sadly, in the next seven years and three fairly insipid albums, I found only three songs which I thought were any cop, and one of those was a b-side.įor all my disappointment in the present, though, I’ll take any chance to look back to their golden past, and whilst the recent best-of Scottish Fiction (reviewed right here) might not have offered the average Idlewild fan anything they didn’t already have in their collection, rarities compilation A Distant History probably will. I’m not saying that I expected them to forever stay true to their punky roots and refuse to move on, but they could have at least stayed interesting rather than hopping aboard the HMS MOR by the time album three arrived, especially after they nailed their ‘grown-up’ sound as early as 2000 with ‘ Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror)’. ![]() I’m just going to put this out there – despite their initial excellence, Idlewild have disappointed me for the past few years.
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