list.co.uk/music IDLEWILD | MUSIC

Neil Eckersley presents

Broadway star of Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Gypsy and Hello Dolly!

BERNADETTE PETERS Tony, Drama Desk & Golden Globe Award winner | Grammy & Emmy Award nominee

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You can feel the sense of adventure in Idlewild in the track’s arrangement, the prog and krautrock infl uences and trance-like state it grows into before Woomble’s distorted, elliptical vocal returns. ‘Andrew and Lucci were much more of a part of Interview Music,’ Woomble says. ‘They’re great people to work with; the wealth of ideas they bring, their musicality. Until Lucci joined, we always were a guitar band. Having a dedicated keyboard player with a background in jazz: it’s amazing what you can do with a rock song.’ The evolution of the band is evident, but Interview Music nods to their past too. ‘Same Things Twice’ rips and roars like a cut from their 100 Broken Windows era. And literary references abound, sometimes in plain sight (a Robert Frost recording on ‘Mount Analogue’), sometimes hidden. ‘There’s more buried in there for the nerds to nd,’ Woomble says, laughing, ‘I include myself in that.’ Words, as always, are important to Woomble. His writing has always been open to interpretation, and with lyrics inspired by dream states and landscapes he calls both California and the Scottish Hebrides home he’s still a thrillingly ambiguous lyricist. ‘Music is one of the artforms where it doesn’t have to mean something but it can still mean everything; it makes you feel. A lot of my friends who write music have the same sort of feeling. It just sort of happens. There’s something quite magical about it.’

Idlewild play Barrowland, Glasgow, Sat 4 May; Interview Music is out Fri 5 Apr on Empty Words, see review, page 96.

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