Hope Is Important

Studio album by Idlewild

Released

19 October 1998

Recorded

Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire
Westland Studios, Dublin

Genre

Grunge,^[1] punk rock^[2]

Length

35:48

Label

Food

Producer

Paul Tipler

Idlewild chronology

Captain
(1998)

Hope Is Important
(1998)

100 Broken Windows
(2000)

Singles from Hope Is Important

"A Film for the Future"
Released: April, 1998
"Everyone Says You're So Fragile"
Released: July 1998
"I'm a Message"
Released: October 1998
"When I Argue I See Shapes"
Released: February, 1999

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Pitchfork Media	(6.0/10)^[3]
Robert Christgau	A−^[4]

Hope Is Important is the first full-length studio album by Scottish rock band Idlewild, released 19 October 1998. The record follows on from their earlier six-track release, Captain.

In an 2007 interview, Roddy Woomble states that the band were:

one of the last of those sort of groups, I suppose, that weren’t totally judged on their first album. Which is just as well, as that record is messy and it’s noisy… yeah, I mean Hope Is Important. It’s a band trying to discover what they want to sound like, and if that record came out now it’d either be massive or totally ignored. Thankfully there were bits in the songs that had people thinking we could be better, and that we could evolve.^[5]

The album was played in full on 17 December 2008 at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow.

Track listing

"You've Lost Your Way" – 1:30
"A Film for the Future" – 3:28
"Paint Nothing" – 3:12
"When I Argue I See Shapes" – 4:26
"4 People Do Good" – 2:00
"I'm Happy to Be Here Tonight" – 3:11
"Everyone Says You're So Fragile" – 2:18
"I'm a Message" – 2:28
"You Don't Have the Heart" – 2:08
"Close the Door" – 2:20
"Safe and Sound" – 3:15
"Low Light" – 5:32

Personnel

Bob Fairfoull – bass
Rod Jones – guitar
Colin Newton – drums
Roddy Woomble – vocals, photography
Paul Tipler – producer, mixing
James Anderson – studio assistant
Dave Slevin – studio assistant
Andrew Nicolls – studio assistant
Ken Rice – violin ("Safe and Sound")
Salli Carson – vocals ("You Don't Have the Heart")
Ian Ritterskamp – band photography

References

Idlewild

Roddy Woomble Rod Jones Colin Newton Luciano Rossi Andrew Mitchell Allan Stewart Gareth Russell Gavin Fox Bob Fairfoull Phil Scanlon

Studio albums	Captain Hope Is Important 100 Broken Windows The Remote Part Warnings/Promises Make Another World Post Electric Blues Everything Ever Written

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" "If It Takes You Home" "No Emotion" "A Ghost in the Arcade" "Collect Yourself"

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