IDER - Late to the World
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Information
- Artist : IDER
- Label : IDER
- Format : 1 x 12" (140g)
- Country : United Kingdom
- Genres : ElectropopIndie PopAlternative
- Estimated shipping date : January 2025
Description
Today, IDER announce their third-full length album Late To The World, their most distinctive body of work to date. The album features singles “Unlearn,” “Girl,” and the sixth-gear-luscious-pop-number outing “You Don’t Know How To Drive”.
Produced by Dann Hume (Laura Mvula, Troye Sivan, Tkay Maidza) and recorded on residency in his church-cum-studio between summer and autumn 2023, Late To The World pushes IDER’s tender sound in a tougher direction. Taking an approach of ‘powerful minimalism’, it’s both bigger in scale and deliberately restrained, honing its contrasting textures of lush electronics and blistering indie rock. The result, they say, is the album they’ve “always wanted to make.”
“We had high ambitions for the sound of this record,” Markwick explains. “We talked a lot early on about how we wanted the production to be super intentional. Sometimes when you’re unsure, you shove everything in – you fill it up with every synth sound, every beat, every layer. But actually what feels more mature for us right now, and what mirrors the [album’s] messages, is stripping things back to the essentials. Everything has its purpose.”
Drawing on a mix of dejected British new wave, euphoric electro-pop and swooning alt rock in the vein of Mazzy Star, the resulting sound is as cinematic as their storytelling – with an added dash of grit and the introduction of live drums (while they’ve always used a live drummer on tour, this is the first time they’ve been laid to record) that reflect the album’s real world footing. “There's a feeling of journeying throughout the record,” says Markwick. “There’s a lot of songs that I would want to listen to in the car, or on the move – you're on this journey, you're moving through life.”
As liberated in subject matter as it is in sound, Late To The World represents IDER’s long and continuous journey of self-discovery both as individuals and as a band. It’s an album borne from weathering the confusion of your twenties and stepping into the clarity of your thirties; its 12 tracks acting as rallying cries for rejecting societal pressures and turning up to life at your own pace.
IDER are the London based alt-pop duo Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville. Previously described as “pop auteurs” and “voices of a generation”, the band came to prominence with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album “Emotional Education”; celebrated for its bold and unflinching lyrics around anxiety, identity, mental health and the human condition.
Their 2021 follow up record saw the band take ownership of their process, self-producing and self-releasing the deeply personal “Shame”. Now signed to Nettwerk, the band are set to return with their most exciting and confident music to date.
Meeting on Falmouth University’s Popular Music course in 2012, Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville’s first collaborations were folk songs inspired by Joni Mitchell and Fleetwood Mac. A 2016 move to London didn’t incite a rethink so much as expose all the possibilities suddenly at the pair’s disposal. Now also drawing inspiration from the likes of Lapsley, Ibeyi and The Japanese House, IDER first introduced their typically spare, melancholy tone with the single 'Sorry' in 2016.
IDER went on to self-release a string of singles before partnering with independent label Aesop for their acclaimed 2017 EP, 'Gut Me Like an Animal'. Eventually signing to Glassnote records, the band went on to record their debut album 'Emotional Education', released in 2019 to widespread critical acclaim. 2021 sees IDER reclaimed full independence over their artistry, which has allowed for a real evolution in their musicianship. With their forthcoming second album 'shame', Markwick and Somerville have deconstructed palatable, marketable notions that had them billed as another “pop duo”, and in finally having total control of their craft, have created the best body of work of their career.