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Will you buy me?

Dan Mohr | 12/18/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"i bought this the day before i went to the cd release party at which low, his name is alive, and the secret stars also played. i had only caught fleeting aural glimpses of their music before. after not even 24 hours of rapt listening, i was already kind of obsessed with a number of the songs (especially maybelle, shotgun, and man in mind) and was completely engaged when they played their set.at any rate, will you find me is chock full of some of the most beautifully crafted and delicately performed pop music i have heard. the harmonies and instrumentation are so lush as to perhaps distract from the idiosyncracies that make the album so repeatable--i.e., the completely dissonant violin/accordion duet on down on your back, the incessant 4-against-3 piano drone of man in mind, the electronic intermezzos that link one song to another. their lyrics are unpretentious and effective, and their voices and songwriting nearly unparalleled among their ilk.if i have one criticism, it is that the last half of the cd doesn't sustain the beautiful, vectored programming that characterizes the first 7 or 8 tracks. it lapses into more clearly country/folk-influenced, formulaic songs, some of which seem a bit redundant when placed next to one another (e.g., georgia and triptych), where they mightn't with different ordering. the concluding two songs tie up these loose ends adequately, however.so, in short, buy this album. don't worry about lack of percussion or whatever--appreciate its delicacy. and see them live."

If you don't buy this record, God won't like you

Horst Meisterfluscher | 11/18/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"From NOTES FROM HAMPSTEAD by Elias Canetti: "I cannot help myself. In the greatest misfortune I, the unbeliever, await miracles. Of all the old doctrines of faith, only one has remained intact for me: the miracle. But I don't want to know where it comes from; I don't want to make one happen. It should remain just what it is, inexplicable, intractable, just a miracle."



From Lester Bangs's review of ASTRAL WEEKS: "Because you're in trouble anyway when you sit yourself down to explicate just exactly what a mystical document, which is exactly what ASTRAL WEEKS is, means. For one thing, what it means is Richard Davis's bass playing, which complements the songs and singing all the way with a lyricism that's something more than just great musicianship: there is something about it that's more than inspired, something that has been touched, that's in the realm of the miraculous."



I feel the same way about Dan Littleton's guitarsmanship on a track called MAYBELLE. (And I love how Liz's violin-voice is complemented by Karla's viola-voice.)"

Ida's best work

rob | worcester, ma USA | 04/26/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is amazing. Will You Find Me was the first Ida album that I bought, it set Ida up there as one of my favorite bands with Radiohead and Elliott Smith. I must have listened to this album for a month staight and it never lost its effect on me, and I still enjoy listening to it now. Ida create's a sound that is so delicate, beautiful, and strangely powerful that I have never heard anyone that comes close to a comparison. The songs on this album have the ability to take you back to the an exact moment in your life when you first heard them. I think this is the most complete Ida recording they have put out, it really is Ida at their best, a work of brillience. I own cd's that are more melodic than this and I own cd's that rock more than this, but this is by far the most delicately beautiful album Ie own, BUY IT!"