Around the turn of the millenium, Idlewild were an underground tour de force, more spicy and vigourous than the rock ‘n’ roll grandads wobbling around nowadays. Most appealing about ‘A Distant Future’ is the look into Idlewild’s less-celebrated but nonetheless impressive past. Slightly less logically, it’s only available as a downloadable collection, but you know, it’s all about the music, not the money, man. Recent misfires and a general lack of presence have been their speciality of late, now looking more like museum pieces than active participants - perhaps a logical reason as to why their Parlophone stable have decided to cash in on the less famous nooks of their back catalogue. To some this may be a surprise, especially to those who thought they’d called it a day a while back. Whether you’d noticed it or not, Scottish rockers Idlewild have been grinding it out for about a decade.
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