I LOVE YOU "THE CHROMATICS"

Yes. Yes we are. And with damn good cause, I might add.

yeah, i wasn't sold on the "Running Up That Hill" cover until hearing it in the context of the whole record... now i kinda dig it.

My copy just came in the mail, but there's something wrong with the CD. Please could someone hook me up with a 256k AAC of Tick Of The Clock, the last track? Webmail me if you can help.

yes yes? I suppose I could just hassle them via email, but I'm in the UK so that will take at least a week of shipping to put right.

So, SO SO good. And if you buy it directly from the band they'll ship it to you crazy fast, at least if you're in the US; mine came in yesterday.

Mine took about four days US to UK!

I give this +++

Running Up That Hill has wormed into my head and now I find this rest is of a piece.

I just heard "Running Up That Hill."
Fuck, I don't think I've heard a better cover of that ever.

just ordered the new version of the italians' bundle, with chromatics' 'in shining violence' 12" now included. continuing the cover song theme, this one has springsteen's 'i'm on fire'!

just adding another fawning voice of appreciation to the thread. it was the kate bush cover that got me too.

I've been wanting to hear the "I'm on Fire" cover! Good?

i only just ordered it!

Maybe not the exact right thread but it's the one on new answers....

Mike Simonetti is doing his first London DJ show tomorrow (Fri) at Our Disco at Hub (2 Goulston Street, off Wentworth Street, E1 7TP).

I'm really looking forward to it, the previous Our Disco I went to was a lot of fun.

I was going to post about the Our Disco gig!

Yeah, I've been a few times (but not since they moved to the new venue)and it's great. www.ourdisco.com. And it's only a fiver.

Anyway, also really looking forward to it.

I'm severely tempted by the Italians bumper back, but the postage to the UK is $40!

bumper pack

gah!

(xpost) And ask Mike for one of the IDIB t-shirts at the gig! I hear he'll have a few handy ; )

"I'm on Fire" cover

Holy shit. Mike doesn't make Troubleman/IDIB stuff avilable digitally, does he?

Stylus writer Nina Phillips isn't so impressed:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/chromatics/night-drive.htm

Wow, what a shit review.

I'm planning to drop by Our Disco, which is conveniently close to my hotel. I love love the entire label's aesthetic.

found a Tour 2006 full length thingy called "in shining violence". it's pretty great, but doesn't have much of the disco influence i was expecting. instead it sounds more like early TG or siouxsie and the banshees. just minimal, dark electronic pop. the dude sings on most of the tracks.

i had a friend listen to some of their tracks on myspace. she's way more into twee indie stuff, and she thought they sounded like romeo void, which i couldn't really argue w/

"poorly produced" what

i'm loving this

damn... thanks ILM

Very excited about this I'm On Fire cover. Juno has a sample: http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF284651-01-02-02.mp3

I'm not sure I get the rapture surrounding this record, maybe I haven't been in the right frame of mind for it as yet but it's all leaving me a bit cold. I don't quite get what sets this album apart from the countless other electronic indie pop albums with breathy female vocals.

Even the Kate Bush cover feels a bit limp to me.

It's quite possible I haven't heard the countless other electronic indie pop albums with breathy female vocals. Can you recommend the best ones?

For me it's an atmosphere thing.

it's the minimal disco-noir thing, extracting maximimum emotional output from minor musical events, so like when the one new chord arrives its heartstopping

And our man Strongo lands another winner in the Fork!

yeah good review, jess!

i have to be kinda honest, as much as i love this group, and will firmly stand behind them, the album's kinda boring. there are a few amazing tracks near the end, but then it just sorta peeters off into minimal synth arpegios w/no real songs. i almost feel like making my own album w/all their stand out tracks i've gotten from comps and singles and cdrs and shit

sorry, amazing tracks are in the beginning, boring in the end

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/46207-night-drive

I thought I raved about their 2005 tour cd somewhere on ilx, but I guess not. it's in the same style as night drive or iv or whatever they're calling the new one, but it's starker and drier. definitely worth tracking down, maybe I should leonardo...

yes please do!

the 2005 cdr has 2 versions of "healer" on it, I guess they really love that song.

Is that the 'In Shining Violence' thingy?

In Shining Violence was the 2006 tour cdr.

I am totally gay for this band

I love these guys but I agree w/ jaxon

I wish they would chill for a minute and make their masterpiece instead of releasing every demo, a bunch of CDRs, five versions of everything

the title track from "Night Drive" is pretty sick tho

maybe I should leonardo...

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A+

I think someone really hit on what I like so much about this band upthread. I mean when you listen to them it sounds like there should be a million bands that sound exactly like them. But I can't think of even one.

The perfection of the Kate Bush quote at the end of Jess's review makes me v. jealous.

it sounds like there should be a million bands that sound exactly like them. But I can't think of even one.

glass candy?

...

I don't really like Glass Candy.

I listened to the Cyndi Lauper version of Iko Iko last night confirming my belief that it is like a billion times better.

have you heard their cover of "miss broadway"? i think it's the best thing italians have put out. it seems crazy to hate on glass candy when they and chromatics are practically the same group at current. and i can't believe italians changed the sleeve design for the "in the city" 12. i loved that whole disco 12" art aesthetic they had for a minute.

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.