The Braille Night

Artist: Ida
Label: Tiger Style
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 686806001221
EAN: 0686806001221
ASIN: B00005K2YU

Release Date: 2001-06-05

The Braille Night

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Tracks:

Let's Go Walking
Ignatia Amara
Arrowheads
So Long
Blizzard Of '78
So Worn Out
The Braille Night
Gladiolas
Ocean Of Glass
Moves Through The Air

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Will You Find Me
Heart Like a River
Tales of Brave Ida
Ten Small Paces
I Know About You

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When Ida's I Know About You was released, you could mentally cross Rainer Maria with Low and have a reasonable approximation of the band's emphatic, unpredictable sound. They were angry young music geeks, down and out and unafraid of expressing punk sentiments in an intricate wash of piano, cello, violin, and acoustic guitar. The band added a permanent member and hit its stride for the stellar follow-up, Ten Small Paces, but stumbled shortly thereafter, losing a member and switching labels twice before landing on Tiger Style. Too bad for Tiger Style that Ida seemed to hit the breaking point in those transitional years. The band members still play and sing like virtuosos, but dirges comprise the best moments of their most recent albums, while pop songs provide the worst. On The Braille Night, tempo also is inversely proportional to lyrical quality, leaving toe-tappers like "Blizzard of '78" with bland lyrics like "You can't shake this silent stare / In your heart you're just not there / You're a thousand miles from here / You just want to disappear." Any recommendation of Ida is likely based on the band's older albums. New to their sound? Lay a foundation with that more varied material before picking this one up. --Sarah Sternau

Customer Reviews:

A great album.......2005-03-30

I notice that a lot of Ida's fans are really into folk in general. That said, I come from a different standpoint. I like rock. My favorite bands are the Smashing Pumpkins, Stereolab, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Radiohead, etc.

So with that out of the way, Ida is up there in my top five bands as the lone folk group I listen to at all. And this album is...well, it's a great album, but it's probably their worst. It follows Will You Find Me, which is a really tough act to follow, and it's just kind of nudged in between that and Heart Like a River, which I found to be a giant step up from The Braille Night. But it is not a bad album at all; certain songs on it are among Ida's best, like "Arrowheads" and "Moves Through the Air." "Blizzard of '78" is the album's hardest track, and it's a good track, but it's nowhere even close to "Turn Me On," which was Will You Find Me's hardest track.

Aside from comparisons, if you like Ida, and this is the only CD on the shelf, it's a great buy. If any other Ida albums are present, go with whatever else there is (you'd be lucky to find any single Ida on a shelf).

Pretty Good, but not Ida at its best.......2003-04-14

The Braille Night is the fourth of Ida's albums i've bought, so i'm comparing it to Will You Find Me, Ten Small Paces, and Tales of Brave Ida. I would rank Braille Night a little bellow these other three (Will You Find Me is my favorite). I find that after listening to the Braille Night for a week it lacks the depth and different textures of their other albums, though it does have a certain "echoy" and spacious quality to it. Though the album is a little bit of a bore compared to other Ida albums there are some top notch Ida tunes here, including "Lets Go Walking" and "So Long". Overall this is a good album and if you're an Ida definately buy it because this is truly an "Ida" album as only they could create.

so smooth and warm.......2003-04-06

Ida is something of a surprise for me. I bought this album knowing Dan Littleton from his work with Tara Jane O'Neil, and couldn't really guess that Ida delivers pure brilliance. Ida combine omnipresent pop-music idioms with folk-music approach and wrap all of that into post-rock atmosphere. I love the way the songs slide from one to another, love Ida's singing and love that melancholy they breathe. Can hardly wait to hear more of their music.

i love ida.......2001-12-27

i had to have this cd.

i borrowed it from a friend, who was reluctant to lend it since she had only recently purchased it, and i didn't want to give it back to her. eventually i had to. and i soon found myself running out and buying it.

ida snuck up on me. but i love them.

i first heard ida in 1997. "little things" was on a mix tape i had received, and i loved that song so much i quickly checked out the rest of their repertoire. it was good, but i wasn't compelled to love them or anything. then i listened to it again, and i realized that it was great stuff. and the braille night is no exception. "so long" "blizzard of '78" and "so worn out" are the best songs on the braille night. don't miss them.

a friend described ida to me as "sit back and contemplate your life music" and i believe that is a wonderful description. listen to ida. love them. i, for one, have never loved so much as i do right now, listening to the braille night.

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