I LOVE YOU "THE CHROMATICS"

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Yeah, the 2005 tour CDR <<< Night Drive because of this.

i liked the male and female voices together on the old version of healer though ....

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?

they're swedish. the song sounds like studio covering metallica.

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

is it just me or is it kind of weird to say 'italo is kind of shitty. most italo sucks' and then name yr label 'italians do it better'??

That interview backs up a lot of my reservations about Italians Do It Better, expressed on the Hercules & Love Affair thread. Like, doing italo-disco or even straight disco and taking out all the bits that might be seen as embarassing so as not to scare off the indie hipsters? What's the point? What is this, undie-disco?

And I actually *like* a lot of Italians Do It Better.

What'ts wrong with that though? I would find it weirder if they kept the "cheezy" bits.

btw, I don't get anything of what he's saying in that interview.

Being one of the people who've put out music on the label I can testify that I love pretty much all aspects of Italo and also I have no fear of losing any sort of audience. I make the music for myself first of all and if it gets released... fine. I'm happy people have been digging what I do - so far - and it's a pretty varied audience. Also, if I wanted to do a straight up Pineapples homage, for instance - and it turned out OK - I think Mike would consider releasing it. And I *would* go the Pineapples route if I felt like it. But you can't touch that record so why even try .

why would it be weirder if they kept the cheezy bits?

Whatever became of that Tie Dye 12" thing he was going to put out? I was super excited about the "it sounds like Studio covering Metallica"!

I also want a Farah album.

why would it be weirder if they kept the cheezy bits?

It might come off as a bit "ironic" or just a bit reactionnary. What I love this stuff is how modern it sounds despite all the winks to the early 80s.

(To clarify I wasn't really attacking the attitude of any of the bands themselves, it'd be kind of dickish to project anything Simonetti said in that interview on the artists)

thanks for the link on those interviews, they're great. hope there's more coming.

i'm interested in this sort of ... "disowning" of italo in the face of "the return of disco". if anything, THAT strikes me as a bit reactionary. to be fair, mike's italian and i think the label name is a bit tongue in cheek. and the times i've heard him play he has actually played very little to no italo. and i wouldn't call glass candy or chromatics 'italo' anyway.

but i am kind of annoyed by people saying that most italo is crap (not specifically him). most of everything is crap. people seem to leave out the part where crap can also be highly enjoyable. i think geist articulated this really well in his rbma lecture.

as for tiedye. i think one of the dudes is going to be on bis soon. they also did a fantastic edit (i guess it's more like a dub)of tom petty's "don't come around here no more", which i tend to view as highlighting the really great parts of the song, rather than removing the bad parts.

shit, now people like disco, what do i have to get into

a lot of spacey synth disco is being called italo for ease when it's not really

i'm only mad at simonetti because i went to see him DJ last night in SF, but he was actually DJing in montreal. glad there was a sign on the door about the mixup and i didn't have to pay or go in (it was COMPLETELY empty)

oh look. there's a johnny jewel interview up now.

they also did a fantastic edit (i guess it's more like a dub)of tom petty's "don't come around here no more"

ysi?

it's on this mix by one of the guys from tiedye ... link still works I think

http://alainfinkielkrautrock.blogspot.com/2007/12/northern-light.html

Chromatics and Glass Candy are coming to play the UK, apparently.

Where?
When?

^^^

Together? I'd be up for that.

I was just listening to Plaster Hounds this morning - agree their new stuff is better.

I'd be all over that.

i'm only mad at simonetti because i went to see him DJ last night in SF, but he was actually DJing in montreal. glad there was a sign on the door about the mixup and i didn't have to pay or go in (it was COMPLETELY empty)

-- jaxon, Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

that's tonight!

wait i THINK it's tonight!

uh oh!!!

no it is. dunno what happened to your thing jaxon!

xpost

I haven't listened to it, but apparently when Mike Simonetti was on Beats in Space, he spoke about it, but without any details.

Anyone know anything more? (Er, including Mike, if you are reading!)

Glass Candy are doing the Pitchfork ATP in May, no idea about Chromatics (they're not on the ATP bill)

he mentions it on his site
http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/

that's a crosspost, it is

oh man, i am gonna have to read simonetti's blog religiously now. i see that guy like once or twice per week buying emo and indie 7"s for the tertiary market.

Glass Candy went through a really dire phase early on. Were they trying to sound like the YYY's?

Glass Candy's noisy phase pre-dates or was concurrent with the YYYs, and they were on different coasts. By the time anybody outside of The Cooler knew who the YYYs were, Glass Candy were already hipster darlings, if I remember correctly.

I thought Love Love Love was pretty good but it seems like that's a pretty lonely opinion

their disco stuff is way better though, Beatbox is amazing

I guess you're right Dan, but man that stuff was bad.

love love love was late, there were a bunch of singles that came out a few years before that I remember nyc hipsters freaking out about. One had a cover of dream jenie I think? Or John I'm Only Dancing?

College radio scene.

Any idea where tikets will be available for their London show in April?

tickets

nevermind.found

where?

these dudes charged me for that italians do it better comp last year and never sent it even after I inquired twice and they promised to resend >:(

ticketweb.co.uk

wait they're playing w/ studio & ame???? doooooppppe