Ider

When Ider found themselves sleeping in a church in Barry, they knew this album would be different. The duo of Lily Somerville and Megan Markwick wound up in the Welsh seaside town after a chat with producer Dann Hume established they were on the same page: keen to swerve the breakneck pace of the music industry and immerse themselves in big projects.

The tracks that came out of that session would provide the sonic and thematic foundations for Late To The World – Ider’s third full-length album, and their most distinctive body of work to date. Since their formation in 2016, Somerville and Markwick have made a name for themselves delivering whip-smart emotional storytelling on a bed of folk harmonies and left-field pop.

Their acclaimed 2019 debut Emotional Education set out their stall early as pop auteurs whose unflinching lyrics tap into uniquely female experiences of anxiety, identity and heartbreak. Building on those foundations, their 2021 follow-up shame embraces vulnerability and imperfection in its lyrics, while the instrumentation takes a more confident, dexterous and club-influenced turn.