Ida - Will You Find Me
(Tiger Style)
Before maneuvering out of their Capital Records contract, Ida were able to record enough material between November 1998 and May 1999 for two full length albums. Will You Find Me is the first of these two albums.
The second album, The Braille Night, will also be released independently this summer, according to the band's bio.
Ida's slowed down acoustic pop has really come into its own, and I really couldn't have asked for a better Ida album than Will You Find Me. The album perfectly combines the simplicity of their debut, Tales of Brave Ida, and the more technical instrumentation of Ten Small Paces and the Losing True Ep. Much like Ten Small Paces, Will You Find Me has the perfect mix of Daniel Littleton's, Elizabeth Mitchell's, and Karla
Schickele's song writing. But not only does Will You Find Me feature some of the band's strongest song writing, it also features some of the best lyrics and vocal harmonies Ida have ever written. On "Maybelle"
and "Turn me on," Daniel and Elizabeth have achieved perfection with the way their melodies and harmonies accentuate and compliment each other.
Will You Find Me also finds Ida successfully adding more and more instruments to their line up without making the songs seem bogged down or overloaded. In addition to their standard guitar, bass, and drums
arrangement, the band is credited as using piano, wurlitzer, organ, melodica, accordion, etc., and other musicians (including Warn Defever and Retsin's Tara Jane O'Neil) contribute cello, viola, violin,
clarinet, harmonica, moog, dictaphone, etc.
This is an impressive follow up to 1998's Losing True Ep, and I look forward to their next album due out later this summer.
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