Will You Find Me

Will You Find Me
Studio album by Ida
Released	July 11, 2000
Genre	Indie rock, Indie folk, Baroque pop, Acoustic, Dream pop
Label	Tiger Style Records
Producer	Ida, Trina Shoemaker, Warren Defever, Tony Lash
Ida chronology
Ten Small Paces (1997) Will You Find Me (2000) The Braille Night (2001)

Will You Find Me is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Ida, released in 2000 on Tiger Style Records. In 2025, The Numero Group announced an expanded 4xLP edition boxset with liner notes and 89 bonus tracks including outtakes, demos and covers. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
CMJ New Music Monthly	(favorable) [3]
Entertainment Weekly	(A) [4]
Pitchfork	(5.9/10) [5]
Spin	(favorable) [6]
The Village Voice	(favorable) [7]
The Washington Post	(favorable) [8]

Will You Find Me was reviewed as "Album of the Week" in The New York Times , where Jon Pareles described the songs as being "like the whispers of uncertain lovers in a perpetual dance of vulnerability and assurance, parting and reconciliation." ^[9] According to Eric Weisbard (writing in The Village Voice ) "they've inflated everything that was irritating about them—and made their first memorable album. ^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Down on Your Back"	4:21
2.	"Maybelle"	6:45
3.	"This Water"	3:36
4.	"Shrug"	5:18
5.	"The Radiator"	2:04
6.	"Shotgun"	4:31
7.	"Turn Me On"	5:21
8.	"Man in Mind"	3:43
9.	"Past the Past"	4:37
10.	"Georgia"	3:10
11.	"Triptych"	3:13
12.	"Firefly"	2:39
13.	"Encantada"	3:36
14.	"Don't Get Sad"	4:27

Personnel

Musicians

• Daniel Littleton – vocals, guitar, piano, wurlitzer, c3, silvertone organ, wineglass
• Elizabeth Mitchell  – vocals, guitar, wurlitzer, mimbal
• Karla Schickele – vocals, bass, piano, organ, wineglass
• Michael Littleton – drums, percussion, melodica, accordi0n, wineglass
• Ida Pearle – violin
• Rick Lassiter – double bass
• Cecilia Littleton – viola, violin
• Sue Havens – accordion, clarinet
• Tim Thomas – piano
• Tara Jane ONeil  – melodica
• Cynthia Nelson – harmonica
• Bernie Worrell  – wurlitzer, moog synthesizer
• Elaine Ahn – cello
• Rose Thomson – plastic hose, piano
• Eddie Gormley – percussion
• Hanna Fox  – percussion
• Andrew Hall – double bass
• Warn Defever  – dictaphone, wire recorder, salt packet

Technical

• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Pat Graham  – photography
• Stacy Wakefield – layout

References

1. https://numerogroup.com/products/will-you-find-me-4lp-box-set?srsltid=AfmBOopZtNZr9wq5imm_rE3SDclful94ulh9Bq3g_Dv_AKYNr1UX7tDS
2. Ankeny, Jason. "Will You Find Me - Ida". Allmusic . Retrieved November 21, 2011.
3. Perry, Jonathan (August 2000). "Ida: Will You Find Me". CMJ New Music Monthly . Retrieved November 21, 2011.
4. Hermes, Will (July 14, 2000). "Will You Find Me Review". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
5. LeMay, Matt (July 11, 2000). "Ida: Will You Find Me | Album Reviews". Pitchfork . Retrieved November 21, 2011.
6. Wawerna, Beth (January 2001). "The Ten Best Records You Didn't Here of the Year". Spin . Retrieved November 21, 2011.
7. Weisbard, Eric (September 5, 2000). "Mixed-and-Matched Emotions". The Village Voice . Retrieved November 21, 2011.
8. Jenkins, Mark (July 21, 2000). "IDA "Will You Find Me" Tiger Style" . The Washington Post . p. N.13. Archived from the original on August 28, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
9. Pareles, Jon (August 18, 2000). "Album of the Week". The New York Times . Retrieved November 21, 2011.