Ithaca (Paula Cole album)

Ithaca
Studio album by Paula Cole
Released	September 21, 2010
Recorded	February–April, 2010
Studio	Avatar, New York City NuNoise, New York City Wittman, New York City
Genre	Rock
Length	48:30
Label	Decca
Producer	Paula Cole, Chris Roberts, Kevin Killen
Paula Cole chronology
Courage (2007) Ithaca (2010) Raven (2013)
Singles from Ithaca
"Music in Me" Released: August 24, 2010

Ithaca is the fifth studio album by American singer/songwriter Paula Cole. This was released internationally on 21 September 2010 on Decca Records. It was tracked between February until the end of April 2010.

It is the first album entirely written by Cole (apart from "Somethin' I've Gotta Say" which was co-written with Kevin Barry) since 1999's Amen. The album was produced by Paula Cole and Chris Roberts. Kevin Killen (who produced Cole's debut record Harbinger) co-produced.

“The overall theme of Ithaca is the return to home and making peace with it,” Cole says. “It's about accepting that I actually want to be with a man who is a lot like my father and that I am a lot like my mother—which I’ve written about in ‘Music In Me.’ I rebelled against these classical complexes and got really beat up in the world. So I’ve come to a quiet place of acceptance in my family and my hometown. That's why I called the album ‘Ithaca,’ which is the island Odysseus came home to in The Odyssey after 10 years of fighting and 10 years of trying to get back home. Rockport is my Ithaca, and coming home has been an Odyssean journey: enduring war and finding beautiful things in home. That's the tone of the album, that there is both darkness and light to this story. My journey has healed me, and in that healing process I’ve been able to work again.”^[1]