ROOTS MANOEUVRES
Ida Mae’s new album Click Click Domino is a true road record. Weaving mournful country harmonies together with layers of slide guitar, vintage roots instruments, old drum machines and modern synthesisers, the husband-and-wife team of Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean have crafted a wild musical landscape that’s as rich in possibilities as the thousands of miles they covered across more than 40 US states while supporting the likes of Marcus King, Greta Van Fleet, Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss.
Conceived while out on the road, Click Click builds upon the duo’s impressive Ethan Johns-produced 2019 debut album s. Inspired by the backdrop of smalltown USA, the record is drenched in the imagery of barren landscapes, heartbreak, cheap motels and thousands of dusty desert miles in the rear-view mirror. Yet it all began in the UK, with the pair first meeting while studying music at Bath Spa University in the early 2000s and going on to form the alt-rock quartet Kill It Kid. Record deals and critical acclaim followed. But by 2015, it was all over.
