IDER confirm release date for shame album with second single "BORED"

IDER returned in April with news of their second album shame and the lead single "Cross Yourself", and have today shared the album's second single "BORED", as well as confirming the release date for shame.

Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville, aka IDER, say of "BORED" (which is teamed with a Lewis Knaggs-directed video), ""BORED" was written in a stream of consciousness when we were feeling particularly pissed off with the music industry; all of the lip service and the many cooks in the kitchen having an opinion for the sake of it. But on a more general level, the song addresses areas of corporate power, false advertising and the wider issue of ‘perfection’ and control. The chorus acts as a relief with the line "won’t you fail with me" - out mantra to embrace failure in order to succeed."

shame will follow IDER's 2019 debut album Emotional Education, and is made up of tracks that were largely written in Berlin during the coronavirus pandemic.

IDER, aka Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville, say of the process, "We got there, and we got COVID four weeks later. We had three weeks of heaven where we wrote so much new music and it was everything we dreamed of, living that chaotic, no-routine lifestyle. We Thelma and Louised it back, because the messaging at the time was "if you don’t come back to London now, you never will.""