Interview Music

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Interview Music
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Studio album by
Released5 April 2019
Genre
Length52:31
Label Empty Words
Producer Dave Eringa
Idlewild chronology
Everything Ever Written
(2015)
Interview Music
(2019)
Interview Music ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.4/10 [2]
Metacritic 69/100 [3]
Review scores
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Clash 8/10 [4]
Gigwise Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
PopMatters 8/10 [1]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Sputnikmusic2/5 [8]
Under the Radar Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
XSNoize8/10 [10]

Interview Music is the ninth studio album by Scottish indie rock band Idlewild, released on 5 April 2019 on Empty Words Records. It was produced by Dave Eringa, who had worked on the band's previous albums 100 Broken Windows and The Remote Part . [10] It reached No. 22 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 1 on the Scottish Albums Chart. [11]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Idlewild

Interview Music track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Dream Variations"5:03
2."There's a Place for Everything"3:37
3."Interview Music"4:59
4."All These Words"4:32
5."You Wear It Secondhand"4:26
6."Same Things Twice"3:46
7."I Almost Didn't Notice"5:01
8."Miracles"2:12
9."Mount Analogue"4:52
10."Forever New"3:25
11."Bad Logic"2:26
12."Familiar to Ignore"4:52
13."Lake Martinez"3:20
Total length:52:31

Personnel

Idlewild

Recording personnel

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