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UncutApr 4, 2019Idlewild throw together plenty of ideas--without much cohesion. [May 2019, p.29]
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May 21, 2019While the spunky, punky riffs of "Same Things Twice" and "Miracles" brim with the kind of energy that Idlewild possessed in droves in their early days, the visceral sensibilities of those early songs are also missing. Much of that, perhaps, is to do with Woomble's vocals on this record—all across the board, on both the faster tracks and the slower songs, his voice sounds worn down and tired.
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Apr 8, 2019Interview Music is a record as dense and conflicted as the frontman’s gobbledygook would have us believe he is as a writer. Whereas before his depictions were flavorful and bolstered by solid REM-like rock songs from his surrounding team, here highlight pickings for intelligent insights are slim, and Idlewild as a whole sound lost and in the process of aging horribly.
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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Jan 8, 2022This was the first album in a long time which got me listening to Idlewild again. I find it solid if never reaching the heights of The Remote Part
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Apr 15, 2020
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Apr 29, 2019