IDER Releases New Album ‘Late To The World’ | North American Headline Tour Starts In April
February 25, 2025 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
After teasing their next full-length project over the last few months with the singles “Know How It Hurts,” “Unlearn”, “Girl,” “You Don’t Know How To Drive,” and “Attachment Theory,” leftfield alt-pop UK duo IDER have today shared their third album Late To The World alongside focus track “Killing The Game” out now via Nettwerk.
Produced by Dann Hume (Laura Mvula, Troye Sivan, Tkay Maidza) and recorded on residency in his church-cum-studio between summer and autumn 2023, Late To The World pushes IDER’s tender sound in a tougher direction. It is both bigger in scale and deliberately restrained, honing its contrasting textures of lush electronics and blistering indie rock. The result, they say, is the album they’ve “always wanted to make”.
Drawing on a mix of dejected British new wave, euphoric electro-pop and swooning alt rock in the vein of Mazzy Star, the resulting sound is as cinematic as their storytelling – with an added dash of grit and the introduction of live drums (while they’ve always used a live drummer on tour, this is the first time they’ve been laid to record) that reflect the album’s real world footing.
As liberated in subject matter as it is in sound, Late To The World represents IDER’s long and continuous journey of self-discovery both as individuals and as a band. It’s an album borne from weathering the confusion of your twenties and stepping into the clarity of your thirties; its 12 tracks acting as rallying cries for rejecting societal pressures and turning up to life at your own pace.
New single “Killing The Game” is the penultimate song on Late To The World and wholly embodies the central theme of the album; being a late bloomer. A calm yet powerful electro-pop track, lyrically it looks at how the world can sometimes feel it moves on without you, unable to keep up and unsure if you want to. The band say: “‘Killing The Game’ is for the socially anxious. Set at a party, watching people enjoy themselves whilst you feel like you’re on the outside – the perception that everyone is ‘killing the game’ whilst you are being left behind.”
IDER recently announced a world tour for Spring 2025, including headline dates in North America. Tour dates below.
LISTEN TO LATE TO THE WORLD:
https://idermusic.ffm.to/latetotheworld_album
North American Tour Dates:
April 10th, 2025 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
April 11th, 2025 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s
April 12th, 2025 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
April 15th, 2025 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
April 16th, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
April 18th, 2025 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas (Sold Out)
April 19th, 2025 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake (Sold Out)
April 22nd, 2025 – Washington, DC @ DC 9
April 23rd, 2025 – Boston, MA @ The Rockwell (Sold Out)
April 24th, 2025 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Sultan Room (Sold Out)
April 25th, 2025 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
LATE TO THE WORLD LP Tracklist:
1. Late To The World
2. Attachment Theory
3. Unlearn
4. Girl
5. Know How It Hurts
6. Hard Enough To Let You Go
7. Zero
8. You Don’t Know How To Drive
9. Quiet Violence
10. Good Fight
11. Killing The Game
12. Encore
