Chronicling the earliest years of 90s slowcore pioneers IDAHO, The Devil You Know [1992-1996] is a 4-Album 5-Disc Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set featuring vinyl reissues of the band's long-out-of-print and highly sought-after first three records (originally released on Caroline/Capitol), now collected by Arts & Crafts with an exclusive box set-only Bonus Album of hard-to-find material from EPs and 7"s of this seminal era.
This Way Out (1LP, 1994)
Three Sheets To The Wind (1LP, 1996)
The Devil You Know (Bonus 1LP)
• Remastered from the original tapes by Michael Graves at Osiris Studio
• Lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl
• Reimagined album cover artwork by Jonathan Schute
• Liner notes by Brian Long and Jack Rabid
Arriving at an apex moment for IDAHO, with a career-spanning feature documentary, Traces Of Glory, and quickly following LAPSE, IDAHO's celebrated first new album in 13 years – The Devil You Know [1992-1996] preserves an era of a band poised to defy the constricts of expectation, laying the groundwork for rebelliously slow and beautiful music entirely their own, sustaining IDAHO's everlasting interplay with their particular muse as they churned out album after album (after album) of singular grit and guttural beauty.
"This monolithic thing that's literally scratching the sky as the sky is going by me. To me, that's the sound, of a guitar moaning with feedback floating in the air cracking the air open as it's sweeping through... Yeah, that's what I think of when I think of IDAHO." – Alan Sparhawk of LOW
"Because right from first taste, it was that IDAHO had immediately likable yet not simple tunes; ample hooks; sneaky melodies; contemplative parts both loud and quiet without jarring juxtaposition (like Nirvana was then borrowing from The Pixies); subtle squalls of background feedback; singer/songwriter Jeff Martin's laconic vocalizing that nevertheless yielded to deeper passions; and most of all, overall damn-near different, surreptitiously strange guitar tones I couldn't put my finger on..." – Jack Rabid
God’s Green Earth
Skyscrape
Gone
Side B:
Here To Go
Sundown
Memorial Day
Side C:
One Sunday
The Only Road
Let’s Cheat Death
Save
Side D:
Year After Year
End Game
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Drop Off
Drive It
Weird Wood
Fuel
Still
Sleep
Side B:
Glow
Taken
Crawling Out
Zabo
Forever
If You Dare
Catapult
Pomegranate Bleeding
Shame
Stare At The Sky
Alive Again
Side B:
No Ones Watching
A Sound Awake
Glass Bottom
Get You Back
Star (from Skyscrape/Star 7”)
Creep (from The Palms EP)
Fall Around (from The Palms EP)
Hail Mary (from Fuel 7”)
The Right Escape (Pomegranate Bleeding CD)
Side B:
A Ten To Noon (from Drive It/Sweep 7”)
The Worm (from The Bayonet EP)
Losing Light (from The Bayonet EP)
Sliding Past (from The Bayonet EP)
Only Maybe (from The Bayonet EP)
FEATURING:
Year After Year (2LP, 1993)This Way Out (1LP, 1994)
Three Sheets To The Wind (1LP, 1996)
The Devil You Know (Bonus 1LP)
PRODUCT NOTES
• 5LP x 180g black vinyl in hardcover slipcase w/ matte coated jackets, 12x12 inserts• Remastered from the original tapes by Michael Graves at Osiris Studio
• Lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl
• Reimagined album cover artwork by Jonathan Schute
• Liner notes by Brian Long and Jack Rabid
Arriving at an apex moment for IDAHO, with a career-spanning feature documentary, Traces Of Glory, and quickly following LAPSE, IDAHO's celebrated first new album in 13 years – The Devil You Know [1992-1996] preserves an era of a band poised to defy the constricts of expectation, laying the groundwork for rebelliously slow and beautiful music entirely their own, sustaining IDAHO's everlasting interplay with their particular muse as they churned out album after album (after album) of singular grit and guttural beauty.
"This monolithic thing that's literally scratching the sky as the sky is going by me. To me, that's the sound, of a guitar moaning with feedback floating in the air cracking the air open as it's sweeping through... Yeah, that's what I think of when I think of IDAHO." – Alan Sparhawk of LOW
"Because right from first taste, it was that IDAHO had immediately likable yet not simple tunes; ample hooks; sneaky melodies; contemplative parts both loud and quiet without jarring juxtaposition (like Nirvana was then borrowing from The Pixies); subtle squalls of background feedback; singer/songwriter Jeff Martin's laconic vocalizing that nevertheless yielded to deeper passions; and most of all, overall damn-near different, surreptitiously strange guitar tones I couldn't put my finger on..." – Jack Rabid
YEAR AFTER YEAR (1993)
Side A:God’s Green Earth
Skyscrape
Gone
Side B:
Here To Go
Sundown
Memorial Day
Side C:
One Sunday
The Only Road
Let’s Cheat Death
Save
Side D:
Year After Year
End Game
286 Westgate
THIS WAY OUT (1994)
Side A:Drop Off
Drive It
Weird Wood
Fuel
Still
Sleep
Side B:
Glow
Taken
Crawling Out
Zabo
Forever
THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND (1996)
Side A:If You Dare
Catapult
Pomegranate Bleeding
Shame
Stare At The Sky
Alive Again
Side B:
No Ones Watching
A Sound Awake
Glass Bottom
Get You Back
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (BOX SET ONLY EXCLUSIVE LP)
Side A:Star (from Skyscrape/Star 7”)
Creep (from The Palms EP)
Fall Around (from The Palms EP)
Hail Mary (from Fuel 7”)
The Right Escape (Pomegranate Bleeding CD)
Side B:
A Ten To Noon (from Drive It/Sweep 7”)
The Worm (from The Bayonet EP)
Losing Light (from The Bayonet EP)
Sliding Past (from The Bayonet EP)
Only Maybe (from The Bayonet EP)
