"blowing up words til there were none"

Ida still makes some of the most fucking beautiful music I've ever heard. Now, unlike when I was in law school and they played all the time, getting to see them live is the rare treat (October 3rd!!). But the old songs and the new ones are in constant rotation.

I was going to say I like the constancy of that, at a time when my emotions are a bit scrambled and mixed up, but actually, the songs take on a different meaning whenever I listen.

New Ida EP My Fair, My Dark out now

I have probably listened to Ida's cover of "Road to Ruin" about...20 times tonight. Seriously. Listen at the Polyvinyl site. Can't wait to commune with the new album.

j. poet at Crawdaddy Magazine writes about the new EP and Ida's music overall:

The music, like the moonlight in the song, is so sparse as to be almost invisible, still it’s imbued with a restrained power that gets under your skin and into your heart like the memory of a lover’s whispered goodbye that jolts you out of your late night slumber.