Pushed the boundaries of minimally orchestrated song structures, placing each note where it needs to be, refraining from embellishment.

CMJ

Lovely music that sometimes does stately piano-based things and sometimes goes all strummy and folky, but always retains taste, originality and fine textures.

Comes with a Smile

Front-couple Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell have refined their slow-motion harmonies and guitar levitations with piquant melodies and textures, making music-like the maturing relationships their lyrics conjure-that's less about climax than about detailed foreplay.

Entertainment Weekly

Starry eyed and melancholic, this is an album of exceptional treasure.

Punk Planet

Autumnally pretty tunes that are also full of quiet gravity...

Rolling Stone

As Heart Like a River unfolds, the true joy comes in soaking up the instrumental depth, the overwhelmingly beautiful details that come from a piano chord solemnly pressed and held like the player's fingers froze or the swells of the violin so thin and seamlessly threaded in that they exert all the pressure of an exhale.

Sentimentalist

The songs on Heart Like a River have a quiet strength, a passion that floats in between the lines.

Ten by Ten

There are musicians with longevity that are constantly evolving, making better music, and contributing to the community of artists with benefits for everyone. Ida is such a band and this is such a record.

Venus