just adding another fawning voice of appreciation to the thread. it was the kate bush cover that got me too.
― jermainetwo, Thursday, 4 October 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been wanting to hear the "I'm on Fire" cover! Good?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 October 2007 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i only just ordered it!
― haitch, Thursday, 4 October 2007 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe not the exact right thread but it's the one on new answers....
Mike Simonetti is doing his first London DJ show tomorrow (Fri) at Our Disco at Hub (2 Goulston Street, off Wentworth Street, E1 7TP).
I'm really looking forward to it, the previous Our Disco I went to was a lot of fun.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 4 October 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to post about the Our Disco gig!
Yeah, I've been a few times (but not since they moved to the new venue)and it's great. www.ourdisco.com. And it's only a fiver.
Anyway, also really looking forward to it.
I'm severely tempted by the Italians bumper back, but the postage to the UK is $40!
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 4 October 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
bumper pack
gah!
(xpost) And ask Mike for one of the IDIB t-shirts at the gig! I hear he'll have a few handy ; )
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 4 October 2007 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"I'm on Fire" cover
Holy shit. Mike doesn't make Troubleman/IDIB stuff avilable digitally, does he?
― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 4 October 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Stylus writer Nina Phillips isn't so impressed:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/chromatics/night-drive.htm
― matt2, Thursday, 4 October 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, what a shit review.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 October 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm planning to drop by Our Disco, which is conveniently close to my hotel. I love love the entire label's aesthetic.
― Tim F, Thursday, 4 October 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
found a Tour 2006 full length thingy called "in shining violence". it's pretty great, but doesn't have much of the disco influence i was expecting. instead it sounds more like early TG or siouxsie and the banshees. just minimal, dark electronic pop. the dude sings on most of the tracks.
i had a friend listen to some of their tracks on myspace. she's way more into twee indie stuff, and she thought they sounded like romeo void, which i couldn't really argue w/
― jaxon, Thursday, 4 October 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"poorly produced" what
― Telephone thing, Friday, 5 October 2007 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm loving this
damn... thanks ILM
― gman, Friday, 5 October 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Very excited about this I'm On Fire cover. Juno has a sample: http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF284651-01-02-02.mp3
― caek, Friday, 5 October 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure I get the rapture surrounding this record, maybe I haven't been in the right frame of mind for it as yet but it's all leaving me a bit cold. I don't quite get what sets this album apart from the countless other electronic indie pop albums with breathy female vocals.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 October 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Even the Kate Bush cover feels a bit limp to me.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 October 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
It's quite possible I haven't heard the countless other electronic indie pop albums with breathy female vocals. Can you recommend the best ones?
― Alba, Friday, 5 October 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
For me it's an atmosphere thing.
― caek, Friday, 5 October 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
it's the minimal disco-noir thing, extracting maximimum emotional output from minor musical events, so like when the one new chord arrives its heartstopping
― jermainetwo, Friday, 5 October 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
And our man Strongo lands another winner in the Fork!
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 11 October 2007 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah good review, jess!
― 69, Thursday, 11 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i have to be kinda honest, as much as i love this group, and will firmly stand behind them, the album's kinda boring. there are a few amazing tracks near the end, but then it just sorta peeters off into minimal synth arpegios w/no real songs. i almost feel like making my own album w/all their stand out tracks i've gotten from comps and singles and cdrs and shit
― jaxon, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, amazing tracks are in the beginning, boring in the end
― jaxon, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/46207-night-drive
― gman, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought I raved about their 2005 tour cd somewhere on ilx, but I guess not. it's in the same style as night drive or iv or whatever they're calling the new one, but it's starker and drier. definitely worth tracking down, maybe I should leonardo...
― Edward III, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
yes please do!
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the 2005 cdr has 2 versions of "healer" on it, I guess they really love that song.
― Edward III, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that the 'In Shining Violence' thingy?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
In Shining Violence was the 2006 tour cdr.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I am totally gay for this band
― I know, right?, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I love these guys but I agree w/ jaxon
I wish they would chill for a minute and make their masterpiece instead of releasing every demo, a bunch of CDRs, five versions of everything
the title track from "Night Drive" is pretty sick tho
― dmr, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe I should leonardo...
-- Edward III, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:36 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
A+
― caek, Friday, 12 October 2007 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I think someone really hit on what I like so much about this band upthread. I mean when you listen to them it sounds like there should be a million bands that sound exactly like them. But I can't think of even one.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The perfection of the Kate Bush quote at the end of Jess's review makes me v. jealous.
― Tim F, Saturday, 13 October 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
it sounds like there should be a million bands that sound exactly like them. But I can't think of even one.
glass candy?
― jaxon, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
...
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't really like Glass Candy.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I listened to the Cyndi Lauper version of Iko Iko last night confirming my belief that it is like a billion times better.
have you heard their cover of "miss broadway"? i think it's the best thing italians have put out. it seems crazy to hate on glass candy when they and chromatics are practically the same group at current. and i can't believe italians changed the sleeve design for the "in the city" 12. i loved that whole disco 12" art aesthetic they had for a minute.
― r1o natsume, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Dunno, Glass Candy seem a lot more varied to me - the thing with the Chromatics is they feel like they've consciously limited their aesthetic within some pretty narrow parameters.
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
the biggest difference btw the two bands is the voice that johnny shapes his music around. with chromatics, for adam/ ruth, thematically the things that pop up again and again are things like horror, emptiness, "the city", night, heartbreak ... whereas with ida/ glass candy there is much more of an ethereal/ new age/ being female thing happening.
― jaime, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I even love the tour pictures on their MySpace page. Alternating haunting gauzy neon sunset L.A. pics with equal opportunity sexxxy hot tub shots.
― Ben Boyerrr, Monday, 22 October 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i like these individual tracks-as-tracks but all mixed together like that italians do it better comp is kind of ... zzz. not boring per se, just ... sleepy disco
― deej, Monday, 22 October 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I LOEV YOU CHROMATICS BUT ONLY WHEN THE GIRL SINGS. PS DUDE STOP SINGING AND GET CHICK TO SING 4ALLTIME, NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR YOUR BAD XIU XIU MEETS CALVIN JOHSNON SHTICK THX L8R
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, the 2005 tour CDR <<< Night Drive because of this.
― caek, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked the male and female voices together on the old version of healer though ....
― jaime, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Tiedye sounds very interesting, although another cover is kinda disappointing: http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/2007/10/please-welcome-tiedye-to-italians.html
Anyone know anything about these guys?
― caek, Monday, 29 October 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
they're swedish. the song sounds like studio covering metallica.
― jaime, Monday, 29 October 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i finally heard some of their earlier stuff last night. how did they (and glass candy) get into the whole disco thing from no wavey stuff? was there a maurice starr in the background? -- jaxon, Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:34 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
mike pretty much answers this here. http://andybetablog.blogspot.com/2008/01/mike-simonetti-interview.html
the more i think about it the more it's just completely obvious, though. i mean, even jon williams is getting into italo
― jaxon, Thursday, 28 February 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link