Posts Tagged ‘Megan Markwick’

IDER – ” Emotional Education “

Posted: December 15, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Themes of anxiety, identity, mental health, and the human condition run throughout. The album’s 11 songs – which include singles “Mirror, You’ve Got Your Whole Life Ahead of You Baby” and “Brown Sugar”– are consistently intricate and intimate, but draw from a multitude of influences, reflecting the multi-instrumentalists’ diverse tastes.

To understand the symbiosis that exists between IDER, you need only learn how the London duo’s debut album got its name. “It came from a song that I had written,” says Megan Markwick, referring to the raw electro-pop anthem ‘Saddest Generation’, a beautiful examination of millennial malaise. “But then Lily had put in that lyric – ‘Where’s the emotional education we’re all looking for?’ And it was a penny drop moment. It’s such a perfect example of the way we work, this partnership that is all entangled.” “Emotional Education is what we give each other,” adds Lily Somerville, “and what we’re going to give you with this album.”

Alt pop duo Ider released a stunning debut album in 2019. Lily Somerville and Megan Markwick know how to stop you in your soul-searching tracks. By the opening song, you know Ider just gets it. They get every little thing you can’t quite put your finger on, and they put their whole hand on it with each lyric lifted by every beautifully placed alt-pop beat.

IDER – ” Body Love “

Posted: January 29, 2018 in MUSIC
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Ider are the vocal, instrumental talents of Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville. Their most recent song, the blossoming, affecting twin melodies, weaving pianos and intricate percussion of ‘Body Love’ wraps itself around our cold hearts and won’t let go. With a slew festivals across Europe, and two immediately sold-out shows at East London’s Archspace, followed by a U.K./EU tour of packed-out venues with XL twin pairing Ibeyi. This past 12 months confirmed Ider as this exciting shape-shifting pop duo as ones to keep an ear open for.

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IDER – ” Pulse “

Posted: January 7, 2018 in MUSIC
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IDER’s Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville are one of the most exciting new UK duos, The London-based duo managed all this with their first track “Sorry” back only in April 2016. Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville appeared out of nowhere with a song built from rolling piano chords, burbling electronics and soon-to-be-trademark second nature harmonies. Both empowering and battling against an overwhelming sadness, its closing mantra “all my skin / I’m wrapped in / all I need” firmly embedding in your head.

It’s the harmonies I keep returning to, but there’s also a collective IDER voice, when Markwick and Somerville sing in unison, and it makes the duo stand out from other electronic pop also-rans. You can hear it on “Pulse”, whose honesty is refreshing as it is startling. There’s a moment where IDER sing togther “gave myself to madness / to the madness” which makes the chest heave, leaves you gasping for breath, but then pulls you back with the most glorious “let’s stick together no matter what” chorus imaginable. In singing “I’ll fall if you do…show me how to hold you” IDER capture the perils and peaks of love and loss. Further singles “King Ruby” and “Million” contained moments which me believe just how incredible this band is.