100 Broken Windows

100 Broken Windows
Studio album by Idlewild
Released 9 May 2000
Recorded 1999 at Air Studios, London
Genre Indie rock, punk rock[1]
Length 43:57
Label Food
Producer Dave Eringa, Bob Weston
Idlewild chronology
Hope Is Important
(1998)		 100 Broken Windows
(2000)		 The Remote Part
(2002)
Singles from 100 Broken Windows
  1. "Little Discourage"
    Released: September, 1999
  2. "Actually It's Darkness"
    Released: March, 2000
  3. "These Wooden Ideas"
    Released: June, 2000
  4. "Roseability"
    Released: October, 2000
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyA[2]
NME8/10[3]
Pitchfork Media8.3/10[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
Spin9/10[6]

100 Broken Windows is the second full-length studio album by Scottish band Idlewild, released on 9 May 2000. The album showcased a significantly mellower, less distorted sound for Idlewild, with the songs being of a slower tempo than those on the punk influenced Hope Is Important. In 2008, vocalist Roddy Woomble stated that the album "seems to be the record many people make a connection with."[7]

The album was preceded by the single "Little Discourage" in September 1999 (charting at 24), then shortly before release "Actually It's Darkness" charted at number 23. After the album's release, the band enjoyed further hits with "These Wooden Ideas" (32) and "Roseability" (38).

The album was performed in full on 18 December 2008, with Woomble noting that he was "looking forward to playing it again."[7]

Accolades

In December 2009, 100 Broken Windows ranked #1 in The Skinny's "Scottish Albums of the Decade" list.[8]

In an interview accompanying the accolade, vocalist Roddy Woomble noted:[8]

100 Broken Windows was very much, for me, us still getting somewhere, still finding our feet. I suppose that’s maybe the best era of any band, when they’ve gone beyond their debut but they haven’t quite got to the peak of their popularity yet; where they’re somewhere in between. It’s quite a pure area isn’t it?

Track listing

All tracks written by Idlewild. 

No. Title Length
1. "Little Discourage"   3:08
2. "I Don't Have the Map"   2:14
3. "These Wooden Ideas"   3:52
4. "Roseability"   3:38
5. "Idea Track"   3:13
6. "Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)"   3:20
7. "Listen to What You've Got"   2:32
8. "Actually It's Darkness"   2:39
9. "Rusty"   4:17
10. "Mistake Pageant"   2:49
11. "Quiet Crown"   3:21
12. "The Bronze Medal"   3:35

B-Sides from this album

References

  1. 1 2 Wilson, MacKenzie. "100 Broken Windows – Idlewild". AllMusic. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Idlewild: 100 Broken Windows". Entertainment Weekly: 115. May 23, 2001.
  3. ↑ "100 Broken Windows". NME. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  4. ↑ Beatty & Garrett (May 9, 2000). "Idlewild: 100 Broken Windows". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 401–02. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  6. ↑ Dolan, Jon (December 2000). "Idlewild: 100 Broken Windows". Spin. 16 (12): 56. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Scotland Best Read Sunday Newspaper". Sunday Mail. 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
  8. 1 2 "Scottish Albums of the Decade #1: Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows". The Skinny. 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2011-08-17.

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