"Actually It's Darkness" is a song by Scottish

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 rock band

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 Idlewild

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, from their 2000 album

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 100 Broken Windows

100 Broken Windows

-B-Sides from this album:* "A Tone" * "Broken Windows" * "1990 Nighttime" * "Meet Me at the Harbour"...

. It was the second single

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 to be released from the album and charted at #23 in the UK Singles Chart

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 in March 2000 (see 2000 in British music

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).

Critical response

"Actually It's Darkness" was described as "guitar clamour ... expertly shorn of unnecessary detritus and laden with all the necessary qualities of electrifying lift-off by the NME

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in their review of the track on its release as a single. The magazine went on to state that, although the song does not differ greatly from other Idlewild tracks released at the time, "as long as they keep delivering the noise this succinctly and unconditionally" this is not an issue.

Track listings

All songs written by Idlewild unless otherwise stated.

• CD 1 CDFOODS127

1. "Actually It's Darkness" – 2:40
2. "Meet Me at the Harbour" – 3:19
3. "West Haven" – 3:15

• CD 2 CDFOOD127

1. "Actually It's Darkness" – 2:40
2. "Forgot to Follow" – 5:23
3. "It'll Take a Long Time" (Sandy Denny
   Sandy Denny
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   ) – 3:56

1. "Actually It's Darkness" – 2:40
2. "Meet Me at the Harbour" – 3:19