Audio CD review:
Idlewild - Scottish Fiction: Best of Idlewild 1997-2007

Idlewild - Scottish Fiction: Best of Idlewild 1997-2007

Band: Idlewild Title: Scottish Fiction: Best of Idlewild 1997-2007 Rating: Release Date: 2007-10-08 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: You Held the World in Your Arms 2: No Emotion 3: Roseability 4: When I Argue I See Shapes 5: Love Steals Us from Loneliness 6: American English 7: These Wooden Ideas 8: El Capitan 9: A Modern Way of Letting Go 10: Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror) 11: I'm a Message 12: In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction 13: I Understand It 14: Little Discourage 15: As If I Hadn't Slept 16: Live in a Hiding Place 17: Make Another World

Wonderful Restrospective All of the songs on this album are killer and make you appreciate how wonderful of a band Idlewild are. This may be the finest retrospective since Gene's best-of 'Collection' in 2006. If you only buy one greatest hits collection this year, I would get this album. Now that they've done a best-of and a raririties companion, I'd love for a live album to be next. Idlewild rocks. Hit & Miss Bands Hit Collection Over the course of their five album career Scotlands Idlewild have swung dramatically from early REM indie-pop to stadium filling torch songs and this very fine 'Best Of. . ' captures both elements to very good effect. The one problem I always had with Idlewild album releases was the inevitible filler, one good song followed by three or four not bad, but not so good songs. This streamlined collection cuts out all the dross and goes straight to the heart of the matter. All killer and no filler? Pretty much. Bookended by two songs from their last album Make Another World which saw them embrace their earlier, noisier material this 17 track collection covers all the ground inbetween and serves as both the perfect introduction to them and the only Idlewild record you'll need. From the straight up indie of 'When I Argue, I See Shapes' echoing to good effect fellow scots Teenage Fanclub, to the anthemic 'American English' this record makes you realise just how damn good Idlewild could have or possibly can be if only they maintained consistency. This is undoubtedly a great album and Idlewild deserve a place in Scottish music history but rest assured that after buying this album you don't need to investigate further. . You can see a complete list of all Idlewild discography, or go back to the Idlewild tabs