Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble launches new band ‘Almost Nothing’

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Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble has launched new solo project Almost Nothing. Check out debut single ‘Anything Whatever’ below, along with album details and news of shows supporting The Walkmen.While Woomble already has six solo albums to his name, his new moniker has allowed him to explore a more “genre-fluid” approach – as showcased by the simmering electronic rush of first single ‘Anything Whatever’.“I started writing short scripts during the pandemic and initially I conceived Almost Nothing as more of a short film with a soundtrack,” said Woomble. “I’ve no experience in making films really, so started developing it into a short story, a novella, but soon realised that I’m best at writing songs.“In my imagination, it still is a short film and a book, but in reality, it’s a 10-track album.

I liked the name as it’s neither positive or negative and quite ambiguous for a band. It can either be a curious one-off or the start of something new and significant – it’s almost something, almost nothing.”Written and recorded throughout 2021 and 2022, Almost Nothing is a collaboration between Woomble and four different producers – Scott Paterson (Protection), Andrew Wasylyk, Le Junk, and Luciano Rossi (Dama Scout).

The album comes with the Almost Nothing Journal – featuring over 100 pages of “behind-the-scenes, fly-on-the-wall access to Roddy’s journey throughout the creative process” and created in collaboration with Tom Johnson from Gold Flake Paint.“I kept a loose diary over the whole Almost Nothing journey, so the journal takes that diary form but mixes it with lyrics and poems, some sketches and bits of stories alongside photographs,” said Woomble.“The intention is to express and reveal – from the process of making albums,.