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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.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 03:01 (seven years ago) link

six months pass...

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

, Friday, 10 March 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

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.

nomar, Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link

Wow

Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link

Anticipating this album so much

Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:33 (six years ago) link

eight months pass...

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

etc, Sunday, 14 January 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

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

Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 April 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Roswell (Ross), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link

On “insomnia”

Roswell (Ross), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link

My god I love Love LOVE the Tess Roby album

i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link

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'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 12 May 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link

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

boxedjoy, Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link

Probably should get the tess album

Blood roses (Ross), Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link

Is it really industrial ?

Blood roses (Ross), Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link

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

i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link

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

i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 12 May 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link

Just got the Tess. Let’s fire it up

Music is confidence (Ross), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link

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

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link

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

flopson, Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link

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.

that's not my post, Sunday, 13 May 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link

Sounds like
Some shit

Free-jazz baser (Ross), Sunday, 13 May 2018 05:12 (five years ago) link

Not what I was expecting

Free-jazz baser (Ross), Sunday, 13 May 2018 05:13 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

synonym toast crunch (Ross), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link

Tess tony record really grew on me

Slippage (Ross), Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

lol tess tony xpost, sheesh

tess roby record is pretty cool - sort of like nico mashed with early nite jewel, with a more victorian twist/more guitars

Ross, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link

i am really loving the Tess Roby album, it's perfect sunset music. it's bringing to mind Hannah Peel's Awake But Always Dreaming, Kate Bush's A Sky of Honey, and Emeralds' Does It Look Like I'm Here? which are all favourites

ufo, Friday, 31 August 2018 06:43 (five years ago) link

minor regret from this year is hearing the tess roby album immediately after she played a show

aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 31 August 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link

eleven months pass...

just re-ripping my IDIB cd collection and listening to the 'music to drive' compilation.
feeling the urge to dive back in and pick up the more recent stuff, but from their website other than the soundtrack stuff by johnny, i dont think i have missed out on that much actually.
seems to be mainly the tess roby/twisted wires/jorah chalmers releases.
or is there something i have missed via their hard work website?

mark e, Sunday, 11 August 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link

yeah I think there's been a bit of a lull since Twin Peaks. Maybe they're saving their time and energy for Dear Tommy which they claimed several times was coming this year.

akm, Sunday, 11 August 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

.@chromatics are releasing a new album—their first in seven years—tomorrow https://t.co/9qUIjKpq5Y

— Resident Advisor (@residentadvisor) October 1, 2019

groovypanda, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link

six months pass...

Hmm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVy3MfVFaY

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link

!

nxd, Saturday, 4 April 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link

No.

cozen (jed_), Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

nice playlist of recentish IDIB stuff

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2SvPXTfpvL18BXAnH6jQEq?si=rtJB_EqsSsqTd4rrXmHhIQ

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 31 July 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

After Dark 3 out Friday.

it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link

Excelente

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link

wait....Guy Gerber?!

it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 23 October 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link

Such a great compilation. Watched the twitch stream a couple nights ago. Loved the Causeway song, the Desire cover of Boy, the Orion track and both Chromatics songs the best, but the Gerber track was good too. Reminded me of a softer Orbital from the early 90s.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/777809883 - here's the twitch stream. Causeway is at 50mins. Kind of like Anything Box with more eyeliner but less hairspray.

brotherlovesdub, Friday, 23 October 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link

it's on Spotify today:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6CNlEHjmcyGP2JBjPhcTsi?si=UWRob6C2Ruy1DaJVW9Uk2g

brotherlovesdub, Friday, 23 October 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link

Yeah, this is a great compilation. Everything I love about IDIB basically.

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 29 October 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link

Also very adequate time of the year to release anything IDIB related.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 October 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link

Definitely. Got the windows open to a rainy fall night. All I need is a little neon and I'd be good to go.

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 29 October 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link

Worse Things Than Feeling Lonely = anthem for our times

Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Monday, 2 November 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link

lovely little record
think it's better than 2

nxd, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link

four months pass...

its still mad how this label still sells the digital editions of their releases for $1 no matter what.
ep, single, expanded album etc.
all $1 each.
guess they know their market is all about the vinyl editions.
(very similar business model to the synthwave, blood music, crew i guess.)

mark e, Friday, 2 April 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link

New Causeway single 'Hide and Seek' is pretty good. Wonder if they'll release an album. Two very catchy singles so far.

brotherlovesdub, Friday, 2 April 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link

why are you mad about that?

this is still one of the better run labels that I ever engage with. Love ordering from them, love their packaging, they are super responsive and all their shit looks great.

akm, Friday, 2 April 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link

cos its insanely brilliant how they have priced their digitals for those of us who purchase etc.

(and yeah, even when i have ordered cds etc, they have always added extras into the package .. )

mark e, Friday, 2 April 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link


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