a thread for Italians Do It Better

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.

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.