New Music: It's Not The First Time

             

The Scottish alternative rock band Idlewild returned earlier this month with the welcome news of a self-titled album, their first since 2019, to land October 3rd via V2 Records. The band release their second single, the emotive "It's Not The First Time", a widescreen, melodic song that continues in that same rich vein of form. Frontman Roddy Woomble had the following to say about the themes behind the album's second single, one that feels like it wouldn't feel out of place on "The Remote Part": "Memory is a broken net, a leaky barrel. You exist in a series of nows, and there is an art to the obvious – all great truths are obvious truths. The video is courtesy by Michael Sherrington, Forest of Black