Ida The Young share album “Tell Me When You Pass The Sun”

After two EPs and several this year singles, the Pilsen/Prague-based band Ida The Young is releasing its debut full-length album Tell Me When You Pass The Sun. Nine new songs will be released on November 5th 2025 on the Ostrava-based label Korobushka Records, which also released last year's award-winning electronic EP Silver Thing.

It’s the first recording in the band’s five-member lineup, which has in the last two years played over one hundred and fifty concerts all over Europe. The band's lineup has undergone several changes in recent years. From the originally folk-acoustic trio, which is captured on the first EP Strange Shaped Flowers, to the electronic lineup, which spawned the single Right Way Up or the aforementioned EP, to the current five-member lineup.

“We tried to combine the different approaches that we took on previous recordings and at the same time capture the energy of the current line-up, in which we have found a balance both creatively and as players,” summarizes the circumstances of its creation multi-instrumentalist Pavel Kielberger, who is also responsible for the mixing and electronic moments of the album.

The majority of the record is made up of compositions put together by the current five-piece line-up and offers plenty of contrasts during its 45-minute run, such as the interwoven Beatle-esque guitar harmonies of the opening song, or the pulsating guitar and bass harmonies and dissonant melodies descending under the hypnotic vocals of the song Big White Nothing. Other parts of the album feature atmospheric electronic textures or moments built around parts by keyboardist Jakub Richtárech. The band's folk origins are echoed in the intimate acoustic Stand Still, while a sharp turn comes with the closer Common Knowledge, which reaches a cathartic finale with an electronic beat taking over the live instrumentation.

Drummer Filip Simon has swapped his minimalist kit from the band's early days for a full drum set, and unlike previous releases, keyboards and percussion also appear in the instrumentation. What remains, however, is the confident expression of British-born singer Iris Hobson-Mazur.

"The songs on this album tread the line between what is intimate and personal to me and what is complete fantasy," she writes of her lyrics. "I find that the two worlds seem to collide when I write lyrics, not only through creating characters and situations I’ve never been in but also through recognising my own delusions in how I perceive the world around me. I like to feel as if my own experiences are somewhere hidden throughout the song, but to most people and sometimes even to myself, it isn’t exactly clear where they begin and where they end."

Ida The Young produced the album on their own, but invited Austrian multi-instrumentalist Julian Werl (Nichi Mlebom) to record it. “Julian is close to us both through his collaboration with friendly bands sinks and Hello Incognito, but also through his approach to music and recording,” says founding member Marek Koliha. “Most of the album was created during two week-long sessions in his studio in Brno.” It was on Julian’s recommendation that Fabian Tormin from the Hamburg studio Plätlin Mastering took care of the mastering of the album.

The album is preceded by the first single Lava Song, one of the band's earlier songs. The release party will take place on November 13th in Prague club Subzero. Soon after the album's release, Ida The Young will embark on an European tour, during which they will present the new songs in Poland, Germany, Belgium and France. In addition to the Prague concert, release parties are also planned in other Czech cities:

6th November – Jazz Tibet, Olomouc

7th November – Pink Whale, Bratislava

5th December – Klub 29, Pardubice

11th December – New Moovement, Plzeň

12th December – Kafé v kině, Veselí nad Moravou

During the European tour the band will perform at:

20th November – Dziady i Koktajle, Wrocław (PL)

21st November – ZINEK, Poznań (PL)

22nd November – Agentenzentrale, Brandenburg an der Havel (DE)

23rd November – Kulturbahnhof Lollar, Lollar (DE)

24th November – GroundZero, Essen (DE)

25th November – Super Fourchette, Bruxelles (BE)

26th November – Supersonic, Paris (FR)

28th November – La Cave à Musique, Mâcon (FR)

29th November – Ma Per Tutti, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE)

Tell Me When You Pass The Sun will be available digitally and on 12” vinyl featuring illustrations by Livia Suchá. The limited edition of the album also includes two bonus tracks on 7” vinyl.

Ida The Young

Tell Me When You Pass The Sun

alt rock/indie

Album will be available digitally and as a 12” vinyl via Korobushka Records.

Decomposing

Lava Song

Shine On Me

Big White Nothing

What’s Going On?

Ghost

The Nose

Stand Still

Common Knowledge

Ida The Young are Iris Hobson-Mazur, Pavel Kielberger, Marek Koliha, Jakub Richtárech and Filip Simon

Recorded by: Nichi Mlebom

Additional recording by: Richard Grimm

Mixing: Pavel Kielberger

Mastering: Fabian Tormin (Plätlin Mastering)

Graphics: Lívia Suchá