The Remote Part

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The Remote Part
Studio album by Idlewild
Released	March 25, 2002
Recorded	2001
Genre	Rock
Length	50:58
Label	Parlophone
Producer	Dave Eringa, Stephen Street, Guy Massey
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link NME (9/10) link Pitchfork (6.5/10) 12 Sep 02 Rolling Stone 15 May 03
Idlewild chronology
100 Broken Windows (2000) The Remote Part (2002) Warnings/Promises (2005)
Singles from The Remote Part
"You Held the World in Your Arms" Released: April, 2002 "American English" Released: June, 2002 "Live in a Hiding Place" Released: October, 2002 "A Modern Way of Letting Go" Released: February, 2003

The Remote Part released 2002 (see 2002 in music) is the third full-length album by Scottish band Idlewild.

Its much more commercial sound (when compared to previous releases) aided it in becoming Idlewild's most commercially successful album to date. When released in July 2002, the album entered the UK album chart at number 3, behind only musical heavyweights the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Oasis.

The album continued to explore themes of identity and belonging, recurrent ideas in Idlewild's writing.

Four singles were released from the album; "You Held the World in Your Arms", "American English", "Live in a Hiding Place" and "A Modern Way of Letting Go".

At the end of the final song, "In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction", the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan recites a poem entitled Scottish Fiction which was written especially for this album.

The song "You Held the World in Your Arms" was used in the soundtrack to video game FIFA 2003 and the song "A Modern Way of Letting Go" was in the video game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Idlewild unless otherwise stated.

1. "You Held the World in Your Arms" – 3:21
2. "A Modern Way of Letting Go" – 2:23
3. "American English" – 4:34
4. "I Never Wanted" (Idlewild/Jeremy Mills/Allan Stewart) – 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" – 3:11
11. "In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction" (Idlewild/Edwin Morgan) – 3:55

[edit] Personnel

• Traffic - Art Direction, Design
• Dave Eringa - Producer, Mixing
• Sally Herbert - String Arrangements
• Lenny Kaye - Direction, Inspiration
• Stephen Street - Producer
• Cenzo Townshend - Engineer
• Howie Weinberg - Mastering
• Danny Clinch - Photography
• Guy Massey - Producer, Engineer
• Rod Jones - Guitar, Group Member
• Edwin Morgan - Voices
• Roddy Woomble - Vocals, Artwork, Art Conception, Group Member
• Colin Newton - Drums, Group Member
• Dan Grech-Marguerat - Mixing Assistant, Mixing Assistant, Assistant
• Bob Fairfoull - Bass, Group Member

v • d • e Idlewild Roddy Woomble • Rod Jones • Colin Newton • Allan Stewart • Gareth Russell Gavin Fox • Alex Grant • Bob Fairfoull • Jeremy Mills • Phil Scanlon Studio albums Captain • Hope Is Important • 100 Broken Windows • The Remote Part • Warnings/Promises • Make Another World Compilations Scottish Fiction - Best of 1997-2007 • A Distant History - Rarities 1997-2007 Singles "Queen of the Troubled Teens" • "Chandelier" • "Satan Polaroid" • "A Film for the Future" • "Everyone Says You're So Fragile" • "I'm a Message" • "When I Argue I See Shapes" • "Little Discourage" • "Actually It's Darkness" • "These Wooden Ideas" • "Roseability" • "You Held the World in Your Arms" • "American English" • "Live in a Hiding Place" • "A Modern Way of Letting Go" • "Love Steals Us from Loneliness" • "I Understand It" • "El Capitan" • "As if I Hadn't Slept" (Planned single, never released) • "If It Takes You Home" • "No Emotion" • "A Ghost in the Arcade" Related articles The Reindeer Section • Ballads of the Book