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"Ida’s music relates a quiet sense of wide-eyed hope: the sense that the just path can be found through quiet reflection and wonder."
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Ida Forget the UN, forget treaties, and forget accords: if we want real peace throughout the world, we should stock it with Ida’s music. These New York artistes have only one real rival in the realm of tranquility – the band Low. Built around the core of singers/guitarists Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell, Ida has released five albums of understated beauty and musical poetry. Recorded at the same time as their heralded Will You Find Me, but certainly not a collection of outtakes, The Braille Night serves up ten sedate yet moving songs that will whisk you happily away into a warm and fuzzy subconscious state. Though tagged "sadcore" by the unimaginative, Ida’s music relates a quiet sense of wide-eyed hope: the sense that the just path can be found through quiet reflection and wonder. Littleton and Mitchell alternate their understated vocal duties, but both of them manage to turn their heavy whispers into yet another instrument of the many (guitar, organ, piano, upright bass, violin, melodica, etc.). Some songs, such as the lovely "Blizzard of ’78," pick up the pace to a sexy shimmer, while others, like the delicate "Moves Through the Air," strip things down to the absolute essentials. Mostly though, the tasteful tact lies between and gets nailed down every time. –Scott D. Lewis
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