a thread for Italians Do It Better

Disintegration is not a Cure cover, unfortunately. That would have been an amazing cover that could fit them.

New Chromatics:

https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/lost-river

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."

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.

how many fucken labels does sniper need

"Shadow" by Chromatics

https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/chromatics

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.

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"?

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.

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

I just want to know when the fucking Chromatics album is coming out tbh

Glass Candy too.

these dudes seem like such dick heads that i don't know how much i care anymore.

that being siad, i love the Girls They Wanna Have Fun cover, both versions they released.

Dear Tommy,

When will you ever be released?

x2

x3

Starting to give up on ever hearing Dear Tommy or Body Work.

https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/cherry-full-album

Mike Simonetti and Johnny Jewel having something of spat on Twitter at the moment (well, Mike is anyway):

https://twitter.com/MikeSimonetti

My liner notes of After Dark 2 say that "The Magician" was co-written by Mike & Johnny and performed by Mike.

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

i still rep for 'one night at the raw deal' tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRTLABXixD0

so far, every song we got is gorgeous

Still waiting for another Desire album, that track on After Dark 2 was so so excellent

Still waiting for Dear Tommy and the Glass Candy album. I'd welcome a new Desire album but I'm not sure that's even on the cards is it? They've been hinting at new Chromatics and Glass Candy for years now.

https://i.imgur.com/G3fQjjI.jpg

^^

http://pitchfork.com/news/73276-johnny-jewel-destroyed-every-copy-of-chromatics-dear-tommy-after-near-death-experience/

Back in December 2014, Chromatics announced their new album Dear Tommy. Although they shared multiple songs from the record, the album never surfaced. Recently, nearly all of those songs were removed from the internet. Now, in a string of tweets, Johnny Jewel’s manager Alexis Rivera has revealed what happened to Dear Tommy. “Christmas day 2015, Johnny almost died in Hawaii,” Rivera wrote on Twitter. “When he came back home to California he destroyed all copies of Tommy. 15K CDs & 10K vinyl in the Italians warehouse in Glendale, all gone.” So yeah, those broken copies of Dear Tommy in that promotional “Twin Peaks” photo were just a few of the thousands of copies that got demolished.

Wow

Anticipating this album so much

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, September 28, 2015 1:41 PM (two years ago)

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, September 28, 2015 6:26 PM (two years ago)

Seems like someone else heard the Air France commercials ...

http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/vandayoung-sue-us-pop-duo-air-france-over-alleged-love-is-in-the-air-breach-20180114-h0i22u.html

Dear Tommy slowly becoming a "sequel to Loveless" type album.

Windswept is really great. Some kind of Barry Adamson shit. Kind of him to recreate the winky’s diner scene from mulholland drive

On “insomnia”

My god I love Love LOVE the Tess Roby album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK-D21rQjt8

^ this is great stuff. not really the sound i'd usually associate with IDIB, makes me think of julia holter, colleen, nico

I was gonna say, that Tess Roby is really good and far too short. I love the stridency of her voice.

Probably should get the tess album

Is it really industrial ?

not at all industrial, more of a folky indie electronic thing

from http://www.gorillavsbear.net/tags/tess-roby-takeover/

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/files/2018/04/4_01_Playlist-e1524188230920.jpg

only just seen nico on that list, there's definitely a similarity in their voices

Just got the Tess. Let’s fire it up

Oh wow, I'd not even heard of Tess Roby before, but this is a v nice record.

Ballad 5 was one of the best and most overlooked songs last year, check it out if it’s not on the album

Oh wow, I'd not even heard of Tess Roby before, but this is a v nice record.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, May 12, 2018 4:06 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ditto. Thanks for the tip folks.

Sounds like
Some shit

Not what I was expecting

Windswept is so good. Anyone care to recommend another album that is solid “fake soundtrack” music. Barry Adamson comes to mind but I’m drawing blanks

Tess tony record really grew on me