“IDER's shame is an exuberant listen with big beats and an even bigger heart”
“Historically, young women’s music has been overseen by older men: producers, label owners. While removing one gender from the creative equation is neither easy nor desirable – of course men are capable of allyship – one of the pleasures of Ider is that these two twentysomething British female pop auteurs talk directly to their peers in a way that feels largely unmediated. Megan Markwick and Lily ”
“Tempted by the lure of the algorithm – and various changes in the way that chart spots are calculated – countless albums over the last six years have suffered from excess fluff, often boasting way above 20 tracks in an attempt to bag as many song streams as possible. It’s refreshing, then, that IDER swerved in the opposite direction with their second album ‘shame’ – a concise, eight-song album th”
