Tuesday Tunes: Italians Do It Better

In an effort to eradicate any potential combination of the words “music” and “Monday,” I submit to you the first of what I hope to be many “Tuesday Tunes.”

I’ll start it off with a sort of showcase about one of my favorite record labels at the moment: Italians Do It Better.

I first started listening to Italo disco when my Music Guru plopped it in front of me one night. I do have a propensity to devour almost anything with synths, and I had already started delving into disco, so the leap into Italo wasn’t only easy but natural.

Coincidentally, Glass Candy started deviating from their No Wave roots and experimenting with the electronic almost effortlessly. “Music Dream” was a really compelling album; it was charming, if a bit heavy handed, and a vital precursor to their current sound.

The transition was obviously a seamless one, with an impressive and incrementally larger, devoted crowd at every show of theirs since the first time I saw them. Since their redirection, they’ve been on the Italians Do It Better label, which was founded by the legendary Mike Simonetti of Troubleman fame (that Troubleman Mixtape was a whole other dimension of my life, but that’s another story.)

Glass Candy’s Johnny Jewel has really been vital in finding and developing the label and its talent (while playing with three of the acts), which despite some mixed results, is still impressive and wholly entertaining.

Glass Candy – Geto-Boys