Lovers Prayers

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Lovers Prayers
Ida's Lovers Prayers album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Ida
ReleasedJanuary 29, 2008
Label Tiger Style
Producer
Ida chronology
Heart Like a River
(2005)
Lovers Prayers
(2008)

Lovers Prayers is the seventh studio album by American indie rock band Ida, released on January 29, 2008, by Tiger Style Records. It has been reviewed by AllMusic, [1] Pitchfork, [2] Magnet Magazine, [3] and PopMatters. [4] Band members Mitchell and Littleton performed songs from the album on the NPR newsmagazine show Bryant Park Project . [5]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Daniel Littleton, except as noted

No.TitleLength
1."Lovers Prayers"5:12
2."The Weight of the Straw"3:48
3."The Love Below"5:04
4."Willow Tree"4:16
5."Worried Mind Blues"4:09
6."Gravity" (Karla Schickele)4:39
7."For Shame of Doing Wrong" (Richard Thompson, originally from Pour Down Like Silver )3:16
8."First Light"5:07
9."Kora"5:01
10."Surely Gone"4:43
11."The Killers 1964"5:18
12."See the Stars"3:52
13."First Take"4:36
14."Blue Clouds"3:30

Personnel

Musicians
Technical personnel

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