there's always "something on the way soon", which is the main problem with IDIB
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Monday, 14 July 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
That's a good point. Kill For Love came out eventually and was worth the wait so I'm just trying to be patient.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 09:19 (ten years ago) link
Hmm I can see their fb page absolutely fine. Albeit they haven't posted anything in 2014.
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 09:34 (ten years ago) link
Weird - checked again and see the same thing. Maybe they have two? The one they always used before is https://www.facebook.com/VIVAITALIANS
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
Hmm very strange, unless they changed their url?
Being hopeful but could be prep for a new project
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 6 November 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
but... but BODY WORK...
― J. Sam, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
aka the new low-key chinese democracy
don't mean to sound ungrateful. this looks amazing.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 4 December 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 4 December 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
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)
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
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
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Disintegration is not a Cure cover, unfortunately. That would have been an amazing cover that could fit them.
― Moka, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
New Chromatics:
https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/lost-river
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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."
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 February 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
how many fucken labels does sniper need
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
"Shadow" by Chromatics
https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/chromatics
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 28 September 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
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, 28 September 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
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, 28 September 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
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
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
I just want to know when the fucking Chromatics album is coming out tbh
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Glass Candy too.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 13 November 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
these dudes seem like such dick heads that i don't know how much i care anymore.
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 13 November 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
that being siad, i love the Girls They Wanna Have Fun cover, both versions they released.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Dear Tommy,
When will you ever be released?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 18 February 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
x2
― mark e, Friday, 19 February 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
x3
Starting to give up on ever hearing Dear Tommy or Body Work.
― spastic heritage, Friday, 19 February 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/cherry-full-album
― ǂbait (seandalai), Thursday, 23 June 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
Mike Simonetti and Johnny Jewel having something of spat on Twitter at the moment (well, Mike is anyway):
https://twitter.com/MikeSimonetti
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 11:14 (eight years ago) link
My liner notes of After Dark 2 say that "The Magician" was co-written by Mike & Johnny and performed by Mike.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
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
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
i still rep for 'one night at the raw deal' tho
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRTLABXixD0
so far, every song we got is gorgeous
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 01:53 (eight years ago) link
Still waiting for another Desire album, that track on After Dark 2 was so so excellent
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/G3fQjjI.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 10 March 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
^^
http://pitchfork.com/news/73276-johnny-jewel-destroyed-every-copy-of-chromatics-dear-tommy-after-near-death-experience/
― nomar, Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:23 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
Wow
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
Anticipating this album so much
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:33 (seven years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Monday, September 28, 2015 1:41 PM (two years ago)
― 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
Dear Tommy slowly becoming a "sequel to Loveless" type album.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 April 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
On “insomnia”
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 (six 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 (six years ago) link