HUH
NOVEMBER, 1994
IDAHO
This Way Out
(Caroline)
The bad news is
that J Mascis has lost his touch for writing
beautifully warped and depressing love songs. The good news is Idaho has found
it. This Way Out, the band’s second release, is an emotional car wreck that’s
nearly impossible to ignore. Jeff Martin’s trademark slow songs twist beneath
sheets of distortion and haunting feedback, while his “up-beat” numbers send my
inner-slacker reaching for the guitar. With plenty of moments of sonic abandon
and a gray sense of poetry and delivery that would make Mark Eitzel proud, This Way Out is required listening for the twenty
something drifter.
Ted Stiles