I hate to say it, but the show last night was not good. Disappointing, even. The only thing that kept me from leaving earlier than what I did was the impression that Chromatics would be the perfect band to have played the Bronze on Buffy. They shouldn't do "songs" - they are much better at tracky, psychedelic cuts. The New Orderisms on the new record are particularly difficult to swallow.
Anyhow, had to put this on when I got home to remind myself why I liked IDIB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKNd8gpvQz8
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Holy cow, people. I am down with this music. Warm In The Winter is a candidate for song of the year.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/2013/08/instrumental-mixes.html
― mizzell, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
i keep expecting someone to do a grey album or wugazi thing with jonny jewel beats. gimmicky but could work.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Sunday, 25 August 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUHC9Hswtg
this has been around for a while but i hadn't heard it and it's very very nice.
― Waluigi Nono (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 7 September 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
Just discovered Warm in the Winter (via Pitchfork list iirc, even though it's a 2011 song) and it's saving my January.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 10:08 (ten years ago) link
It's a great song. Mirage's "Let's Kiss" would be my favourite from After Dark 2 though.
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 10:56 (ten years ago) link
Got the After Dark 2 triple clear-LP boxset for xmas. nghh.
DL - how incredible is that little motif around....4.25 in?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 10:56 (ten years ago) link
yeh warm in the winter is so greatif only it had some 2012 love then i would have nommed it three years in a row for the ilm singles
― nathey, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 10:58 (ten years ago) link
lol it was my winter 2012 song
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
i never knew about this 2009 ep (vocals by Farah): http://www.discogs.com/Garey-Snider-Gspider-Farah/release/2362485
the one track on youtube ("bruise color blue") is way more upbeat and aggro than the IDIB singles, not really into it.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 02:19 (ten years ago) link
Is this still a record label? Every once in a while Mike Simonetti Tweets something about DJing in Moscow or something like that but they haven't put out any records in about a year, right?
― Walter Galt, Monday, 14 July 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
well, it was 5+ years in between Chromatics releases.
― campreverb, Monday, 14 July 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure I read there's a second Glass Candy album on the way soon.
They seem to repress their records a lot which is nice. Managed to get Kill For Love, After Dark 2 and Beat Box all on coloured vinyls for under $30 last year. Such a great label.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
there's always "something on the way soon", which is the main problem with IDIB
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Monday, 14 July 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
That's a good point. Kill For Love came out eventually and was worth the wait so I'm just trying to be patient.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Hmm.
Their blog (http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/) where they would announce stuff gives a "This blog is open to invited readers only. It doesn't look like you have been invited to read this blog. If you think that this is a mistake, you might want to contact the blog author and request an invitation" message.
Their Facebook page says "Sorry, this page isn't available. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed."
I wonder what's up. I love very nearly everything these guys have put out and was just thinking "I hope there's new stuff on the horizon." But it's been almost a year and a half since they released anything. Anybody know anything?
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 09:19 (nine years ago) link
Hmm I can see their fb page absolutely fine. Albeit they haven't posted anything in 2014.
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 09:34 (nine years ago) link
Weird - checked again and see the same thing. Maybe they have two? The one they always used before is https://www.facebook.com/VIVAITALIANS
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Hmm very strange, unless they changed their url?
Being hopeful but could be prep for a new project
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
Something old, new: https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/the-last-dance
It's really lovely. Totally goes into the Warm in the Winter progression a minute or two in and makes me wish that IDIB was still putting out records
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 6 November 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/57714-chromatics-announce-new-album-dear-tommy/
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/57714/ffb0a893.jpg
17 songs? I'm just going to predict that's a few too many, but I'm looking forward to it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
but... but BODY WORK...
― J. Sam, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
aka the new low-key chinese democracy
don't mean to sound ungrateful. this looks amazing.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Looking forward to this but yeah, I'd rather have the Glass Candy album first. Beatbox is by far my favourite album put out on the label.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 4 December 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
From IDIB Facebook:
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND...WE ARE UPLOADING "RUNNING FROM THE SUN" TO SPOTIFY & ITUNES TODAY. A LIMITED VINYL REPRESS ON CHERRY RED WILL BE BACK IN THE STORE IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS ALONG WITH "KILL FOR LOVE" ON 180 GRAM WHITE, CHROMATICS & GLASS CANDY SHIRTS, DESIRE LPS, & MORE. IF YOU CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG...DOWNLOAD THE "RUNNING FROM THE SUN" LP HERE (and there's a link but I won't post it because even though this is from the artist I'm not sure how cool that is)
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
It says 'Unlimited Downloads SO PASS IT ON' right there in the post, pretty sure it's fine to post here.
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/hu9bp2
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Disintegration is not a Cure cover, unfortunately. That would have been an amazing cover that could fit them.
― Moka, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
New Chromatics:
https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/lost-river
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/58458-chromatics-share-dear-tommy-single-just-like-you/
"They're going to release a new single every week until the album comes out."
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 February 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
I had been wondering about this...
Mike Simonetti has decided to split from Italians Do It Better (Chromatics, Glass Candy) to focus on his new project, Pale Blue, as well as his new venture: the freshly minted label 2MR (Two Mikes Records). A collaboration between Simonetti and Captured Tracks, 2MR is an opportunity for Simonetti to start from a blank slate and release music he believes in.
The first release on 2MR will be The Past We Leave Behind, the debut album from Pale Blue.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
how many fucken labels does sniper need
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
"Shadow" by Chromatics
https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/chromatics
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
Playing this now. It's nice if weirdly more lo-fi than the last few Chromatics things?
Cribs a huge chunk of the melody from Sonic Youth's "Wish Fulfillment" halfway through, and that's alright with me.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 28 September 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
The new Air France commercial is awful. It ruins Warm In The Winter, which is probably my alltime favorite song from this whole label. And it runs about 2000 times a day. That's good for Glass Candy and Johnny Jewel's wallet no doubt, but geez couldn't they have come up with something better than "France in the air"?
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 28 September 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
ha I hadn't heard this song until flying air france this summer & now the song is a big hit chez nous. haven't heard it outside flights/home though.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Mike Simonetti - who incidentally ripped me off on Discogs a few months ago (sent me the wrong record, then wouldn't reply to emails, and when I raised a PayPal dispute he sent an angry email going "Dude I live in airplanes and hotels, I don't have time to deal with this" etc. - is going off on Twitter right now, saying Johnny Jewel left him with a massive tax bill and he's going to set the record straight with a big interview about how he got dicked out of the label he founded, etc. Says he's putting all the old masters on eBay, blah blah
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
I just want to know when the fucking Chromatics album is coming out tbh
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Glass Candy too.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 13 November 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
these dudes seem like such dick heads that i don't know how much i care anymore.
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 13 November 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
that being siad, i love the Girls They Wanna Have Fun cover, both versions they released.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Dear Tommy,
When will you ever be released?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 18 February 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
x2
― mark e, Friday, 19 February 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
x3
Starting to give up on ever hearing Dear Tommy or Body Work.
― spastic heritage, Friday, 19 February 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/cherry-full-album
― Ç‚bait (seandalai), Thursday, 23 June 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Mike Simonetti and Johnny Jewel having something of spat on Twitter at the moment (well, Mike is anyway):
https://twitter.com/MikeSimonetti
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
My liner notes of After Dark 2 say that "The Magician" was co-written by Mike & Johnny and performed by Mike.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
hasn't simonetti dicked over a bunch of people in the past? why's everyone w/ this label an asshole? i was disappointed with after dark 2 and i've all but lost complete interest since the chromatics album is never coming out
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
i still rep for 'one night at the raw deal' tho
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link