Captain (album)

Captain
EP by Idlewild
Released January, 1998
Recorded October, 1997
Genre Rock
Length 19:47
Label Deceptive Records
Producer Paul Tipler
Idlewild chronology

Captain
(1998)		 Hope Is Important
(1998)
Singles from Captain
  1. "Satan Polaroid"
    Released: February, 1998

Captain is the debut release by Scottish rock band Idlewild, released in January 1998. Although the number of tracks would normally class the release as an EP, Captain is commonly known as a mini-album.[1][2] Guitarist Rod Jones notes that the album "was a sort of introduction to Idlewild."[3]

The album was produced by Paul Tipler in the first week of October 1997 at River Studios, London, and released through Deceptive Records.

In an interview in 2007, Roddy Woomble spoke about the album, stating that he:

was singing in an American accent, y’know! Of course it’s how we found our feet – I was deeply into Tom Barman, and even though he’s Belgian he sang in an American accent, and I thought if he could do it so could I. But after the first album, I found another voice, my own voice.[4]

The album was played in full, alongside Make Another World, on December 21, 2008.

Track listing

  1. "Self Healer" - 1:58
  2. "Annihilate Now!" - 3:32
  3. "Captain" - 3:35
  4. "Last Night I Missed All The Fireworks" - 1:24
  5. "Satan Polaroid" - 3:17
  6. "You Just Have To Be Who You Are" - 5:57

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 'Captain' at Idlewild's official website discography
  2. ↑ Lindsay, Andrew. "Interview: Rod Jones (Idlewild)". stereokill.net. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
  3. ↑ Lindsay, Andrew. "Interview: Rod Jones (Idlewild)". stereokill.net. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
  4. ↑ Drowned in Sound - Features - ReDiScover: Idlewild