The Remote Part

by Idlewild

The Remote Part cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 2002
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 38:18
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Rod Jones, Dave Eringa, Colin Newton, Allan Stewart, Guy Massey, Bob Fairfoull, Jeremy Mills, Stephen Street

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fully transitioning away from their frantic, noisy punk origins, the Scottish band achieved immense commercial success with this sweeping, stadium-ready rock album. The highly melodic, literary songwriting occasionally features poetic spoken-word contributions from acclaimed Scottish writer Edwin Morgan.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, dynamic, male-vocals, crescendo, emotive

Tracklist

  1. You Held the World in Your Arms (3:22)
  2. A Modern Way of Letting Go (2:23)
  3. American English (4:37)
  4. I Never Wanted (3:55)
  5. (I Am) What I Am Not (2:43)
  6. Live in a Hiding Place (3:16)
  7. Out of Routine (3:09)
  8. Century After Century (4:01)
  9. Tell Me Ten Words (3:46)
  10. Stay the Same (3:10)
  11. In Remote Part / Scottish Fiction (3:50)

Credits

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