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Heart Like A River - Ida
  • Band Name: Ida
  • Record Label: Polyvinyl
  • Release Date: Feb 22, 2005
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  • Summary: The New York indie-folk band's seventh album (their first in four years) is co-produced by Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive).

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Lost At Sea
    90
    Heart Like a River takes you on a journey, and does not leave until every sight is seen and pathway is walked.
  2. All Music Guide
    80
    Ida continues to create slow, sad music that maintains interesting depth within the ache.
  3. Rolling Stone
    60
    Autumnally pretty tunes that are also full of quiet gravity, as if Neil Young and a lover popped Valium and decided to hash things out on record.

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  1. pedrop
    8
    the unbelievably powerful and heartfelt songs on the collection help define Ida's approach to music; a slow-core, melencholy, yet somehow uplifting collection of pure talent, highlighted by songs such as "Late Blues," "Sundown," and "What Can I do"… Expand
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