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Jan 09, 2025 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Sami Weller

Next month, UK-based alt pop duo IDER is set to return with their third full-length album, Late To The World. The album follows their 2019 debut, Emotional Education, and their 2021 follow-up, shame, and sees members Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville teaming with producer Dann Hume (Troye Sivan, Tkay Maidza). The pair recorded the album in Hume’s church-turned-studio, weaving together touches of synth pop, indie rock, and electronic production for a record that feels deeply emotive and cinematic in scale.

IDER has already shared a handful of new singles from the record over the past year, including their latest effort, “Know How It Hurts,” and today they’re back with another new track, “Attachment Theory,” premiering with Under the Radar.

”Attachment Theory” thrums with bright synth pop energy and dazzles with propulsive hooks, showing off the duo at their most euphoric while retaining a misty ‘80s pop undercurrent. Marwick and Somerville’s vocals dance in swirling harmonies, moving above beds of pillowy synths and dreamy production. Simultaneously, the track sports a driving tempo and pulsing drumbeat, steeping it in both feather-light synth textures and a captivating urgency. Meanwhile, the lyrics take a reflective tour through thorny relationship territory, exploring loneliness and insecurity and playing with online trends of self-diagnosis: “Reading attachment theory / Trying to diagnose myself / I’m giving up I swear to God / This has gotta be somebody else / Tell me a different story / Haven’t I heard this one before / It only leaves me lonely / And I don’t wanna love that way no more.”

IDER says of the track, “We wrote ‘Attachment Theory’ after a friend asked us to write a song about attachment styles. It seems as though everyone is obsessed with the idea and with self-diagnosing so we decided to write a confessional song about ours. On a deeper and more emotional level it’s about the fear of being defined by the way you love and desperately wanting to change it.”

They say of the accompanying video, “We made the video for ‘Attachment Theory’ with director and friend Basha De Bruijn. The concept was simple - us crying and “getting through life” in everyday situations filmed around London and at Meg’s flat, to capture the raw and real message of the song. The video was shot on 16mm film which made the final visual and the filming experience as true to life as possible.”

Check out the video below along with the duo’s upcoming tour dates, and pre-save the single here. Late To The World is out February 21st via Nettwerk.

Tour Dates:

April 10th, 2025 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret

April 11th, 2025 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s

April 12th, 2025 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

April 15th, 2025 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop

April 16th, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo

April 18th, 2025 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas

April 19th, 2025 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake

April 22nd, 2025 – Washington, DC @ DC 9

April 23rd, 2025 – Boston, MA @ The Rockwell

April 24th, 2025 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Sultan Room