Lapse Idaho

• 1Kamikaze03:33
• 2On Fire03:10
• 3West Side03:18
• 4Heaven On Earth02:31
• 5Heat Seek02:40
• 6Somehow04:04
• 7Snakes03:34
• 8Across The Sky02:52
• 9Throw The Game04:09
• 1029 Palms01:19
• Total Runtime31:10

Info for Lapse

IDAHO returns with its first new album in more than 13 years. Emerging in the early 90s, often linked to the seminal bands of the influential slowcore movement pioneered by Low, Songs: Ohia, Codeine, and others, IDAHO is uniquely distinguished by the ragged elegance of frontman Jeff Martin’s powerful songcraft, the gentle angst of his poetry leading the airy, earthen synergy of his sonic desertscape. As ever, Lapse – which marks IDAHO’s first full-length release since 2011’s You Were A Dick – is engraved with the painterly strains of four-string guitar feedback that has long been IDAHO’s signature, its lush melancholia lavished by Martin with bittersweet delivery on ten heartrending, cinematic new songs, charged with the undying love of being a band. An album about relationships, and relationships based on music, Lapse serves as a snapshot of IDAHO’s quintessential ever-evolving sound, captured in newfound flux. Martin sees the album as “a harkening back to the beginnings of IDAHO”: less a return to form than a reclamation and a deep visitation with the muse that ignited more than three decades of exceptionally original, mysterious, canonical music. An open letter to all who have delighted in IDAHO, Lapse is steeped in nostalgia without ever succumbing to it, rich with pure sonic and emotional accrual, a lightning strike destined to enrich the legacy of a singular – yet already enduring – band.

IDAHO

IDAHO
Started in 1992 in Los Angeles as a duo, through the mid nineties as a full band and then finally as a solo artist, the band IDAHO has become synonymous with Jeff Martin. He has been the sole thread through all of the incarnations. Known mostly for four-string guitars, low tempos, spectral feedback and nuance, IDAHO has never bowed to the pressures of being commercial. For their trouble He/they are the eternal underground band. By luck they’ve attracted a devoted, almost cult-like, following. Idaho is like the secret club of indie music, and for this record you’ll need the code words….

Jeff Martin , once again, goes it alone for this record save for some backing vocal by Eleni Mandell. His forays into TV and film scoring for the last 10 years have been nice but it was high time for a new Idaho effort to once again taint the ethers after a 5 year hiatus (« The Lone Gunman, 2005).

« You were a dick » was recorded at Jeff’s house in Laurel Canyon. His first short film “The Serpent and the Shadow” is currently playing in film festivals and lends some of it’s musical score to the new record. Jeff is making a yet to be titled feature length documentary that centers on Idaho’s European tour in ’02 .The documentary also visits many chapters of his musical life from childhood up to the present day taking full advantage of his extensive personal video and film library.

« His acoustic and custom four-string guitars’ unique tonal qualities assert themselves in subtle fashions, such as on a fuzzy instrumental “Impaler” (ah, classic mid ‘90s Idaho!), the more drums-centered “Up the Hill” and the up-tempo buzz of “The Space Between,” while several others like “Reminder” and “Someone to Relate To” are his sweetly sad piano meditations in the Neil Young “Soldier” mode—his low, trembling, sighing voice filling in the melodic movements. It’s music to accompany crossing the Mojave Desert, and outside of Wheat’s Medeiros and Husband & Wife’s Dark Dark Woods, no one else ever came close to Martin’s moist morning mood; and after so long gone, I’d forgotten how much I love it. » Jack Rabids, The Big Takeover.

This album contains no booklet.