a thread for Italians Do It Better

Y U BRAKE HERAT JF ;_;

Really looking forward to this btw, not heard it yet

Cherry is such a great pop song, in a just world it'd be a massive hit

Got the promo in my inbox today, about to give it a spin. Praying for something as perfectly sad as 'Lady Operator' was on the first one.

What are Glass Candy and Chromatics like live?

Glass Candy are a little more of a fun time party band live than Chromatics, who are a little more too cool for school chill. Glass Candy are keyboard and vocals and a lot of dancing, onsesys and c'mon's and Chromatics are more I'm smoking cigarettes and playing guitar and you can't fuck with this.

That said, they're all ridiculously approachable. Now that they are bigger this may have changed, but last time I saw Glass Candy, afterwards Johnny and Mike Simonetti sat on the stage afterward selling merch and chatting with all comers and last time I saw Chromatics, it was rained out and they traded cigarettes and jokes with the crowd, Johnny quipped that he was afraid of being 'electro-cuted'.

Music is always on point too. I suppose if you've had a song demo'd since 2005 and only released it last year, you've probably thought about it a bit. But, I don't know. Like, you know how nobody buys music anymore and bands relentless tour and have polished this completely fine but somewhat sterile 45 minute set that they know works and play over and over again? Whereas it used to be a little less important to be on message every night when nobody used to go to live shows and bands live used to be a little looser and they'd play a cover if they felt like it, or something they were working on? Chromatics and Glass Candy feel a little more like that.

OK, great. I got my tickets for the show in a couple of weeks.

Am definitely interested in how they work the crowd and perform, IDIB style is so sedate and a bit calculated.

'Cherry' is so gorgeous, not sure if that awooeeooawooaee bit is ripping something off or if it's just an instant classic hook.

And then that swirling synth/drum fill bit right at the end of it just seals the deal

"Cherry" in parts reminds me of ... a couple've tracks off the Magnetic Fields' The Wayward Bus? "Candy" & something else.

it's definitely ripping off something. Can't put my finger on it though

ya when I try to pinpoint it I keep getting stuck on a bit of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnD_ESwsC94

which is close but not quite right.

Am definitely interested in how they work the crowd and perform, IDIB style is so sedate and a bit calculated.

yeah Glass Candy is not like that at all live. when I saw them they played all their party / dance tracks and closed with Iko Iko and Mind Playing Tricks On Me.

Last time I saw them (I might even have said this in this thread a couple of years ago), Glass Candy live was like an aerobics class.
The show ended with half the club onstage.

Hmm. There's another Glass Candy thread somewhere that goes into greater detail. Lex complains about them live because he didn't like the singer's sweater-dress or something.

what are your favorite non-marquee songs on the after darks?

on after dark 1 i liked "law of life"

on after dark 2 i like "fill the blanks"

Reviewed AD2 here:
http://t.co/UGIo9kpEHs

still haven't listened to this because haven't stayed up late enough to go on a late night walk

Sort of agree with that review, but need to spend more time with it. Going to the show tonight!

Here's a long shot - does anyone happen to have a pair of tickets to the London show tomorrow? (12 June) at KOKO?

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

Holy cow, people. I am down with this music. Warm In The Winter is a candidate for song of the year.

http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/2013/08/instrumental-mixes.html

i keep expecting someone to do a grey album or wugazi thing with jonny jewel beats. gimmicky but could work.

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.

Just discovered Warm in the Winter (via Pitchfork list iirc, even though it's a 2011 song) and it's saving my January.

It's a great song. Mirage's "Let's Kiss" would be my favourite from After Dark 2 though.

Got the After Dark 2 triple clear-LP boxset for xmas. nghh.

DL - how incredible is that little motif around....4.25 in?

yeh warm in the winter is so great
if only it had some 2012 love then i would have nommed it three years in a row for the ilm singles

lol it was my winter 2012 song

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.

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?

well, it was 5+ years in between Chromatics releases.

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.

there's always "something on the way soon", which is the main problem with IDIB

That's a good point. Kill For Love came out eventually and was worth the wait so I'm just trying to be patient.

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?

Hmm I can see their fb page absolutely fine. Albeit they haven't posted anything in 2014.

Weird - checked again and see the same thing. Maybe they have two? The one they always used before is https://www.facebook.com/VIVAITALIANS

Hmm very strange, unless they changed their url?

Being hopeful but could be prep for a new project

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

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.

but... but BODY WORK...

aka the new low-key chinese democracy

don't mean to sound ungrateful. this looks amazing.

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.

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)

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

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