Ten Small Paces

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Ten Small Paces
Ida's Ten Small Paces album cover.png
Studio album by
Ida
ReleasedSeptember 30, 1997
Genre Indie rock, Indie folk, Baroque pop, Acoustic, Dream pop
Label Simple Machines Records
Ida chronology
I Know About You
(1996)
Ten Small Paces
(1997)
The Braille Night
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The A.V. Club (favorable) [2]
CMJ New Music Report (favorable) [3]
Trouser Press (favorable) [4]

Ten Small Paces is the third studio album by the American indie rock duo Ida, released in 1997 on Simple Machines Records.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ida, except as noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Hilot"3:16
2."Les Étoiles Secrètes"2:29
3."Fallen Arrow" (Karla Schickele)3:39
4."The Weight"3:13
5."Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (Neil Young, from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere )2:00
6."Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe)1:07
7."Shoe-In" (Secret Stars)3:17
8."Poor Dumb Bird" (Karla Schickele)2:45
9."Golden Hours" (Brian Eno, from Another Green World )4:32
10."Ashokan Reservoir"1:11
11."Drunk Aviator"2:09
12."Do You Remember"3:24
13."Purely Coincidental"2:59
14."Dream Date"4:06
15."Capo"3:03

Personnel

Ida
Additional musicians
Technical personnel

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References

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