Muki

If you like IDA's music, this will be a fresh, new experience bye which to appreciate Daniel and Elizabeth! A+

This is definitely not an Ida record, though I suspect most Ida fans will find much to love about it. In fact, this album holds together better than any of Ida's offerings, and offers just as many high points. The mood throughout is meditative and gentle, but never boring, and the sound is clearer and crisper than most Ida recordings. Daniel Littleton's sense of restraint really comes through here--the guitar work and electronic instrumentation is deliberate and measured, and leaves plenty of room for the vocals to work their magic. If you love Elizabeth Mitchell's voice as much as I do, then this record is a real gift. She keeps it simple, and the effect is mesmerizing. My favorites are "On Me Forever" and "Looking Backward."If you love Ida's Will You Find Me and Bjork's Vespertine, then this album should make you very happy.

This is a seriously underplayed album. It has a more meditative, hypno-minimalist quality than most Ida music--the image in my head is of orange-robed priests, rain forest, ocean, the scent of opium, maybe a volcano in the background--but with some of the same odd melodic and harmonic twists and lots of their signature guitar and harmonium combinations. Very listenable and positive if you have people over. And if you choose to listen to it and do nothing else, very smart.

the below review is exactly correct...what a collaberation between ida members...amazing cd, i guarentee youll fall asleep to it...

Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchel have done it again. As if Ida wasn't good enough, they formed a new band (they being the only two members). The sound is very reminiscent of Ida, but with more drum machines and bjork-ish sounds swirling around in the background. The vocals of Elizabeth Mitchel and the guitar of Daniel Littleton are as incredible as ever, and the songs are just as melodic and bittersweet. If you gave nick drake a drum machine and an acoustic guitar, it just might sound something like this. Mitchel and Littleton are certainly two of the most unique and talented musicians out there today, and this album is just more proof.