bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. Today they release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, via Matador / Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim. Songs like ‘my little tony’, with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks, the cathartic four-on-the-floor of ‘world’s greatest emoter’ and the festival tent psychedelia of ‘Hi-fiver’ need little in the way of exposition – these are exhilarating rock songs, if...
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bar italia have released new single and video ‘worlds greatest emoter’, a driving and ascending standout from their forthcoming second full length of 2023, The Twits, out November 3rd. ‘worlds greatest emoter’ follows singles ‘my little tony’ which is currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist and ‘Jelsy’, which The Times described as “slow-burning eerie bluesy rock with a hint of bossa nova from the celebrated trio”. Pre-order / Pre-save The Twits here.Stream / Purchase ‘worlds greatest emoter’ here.
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bar italia have released new single and video ‘Jelsy’, taken from their forthcoming second full length of 2023 – The Twits – out November 3rd. Led by the group’s three-way vocal dynamic, ‘Jelsy’ plays out like a conversation between friends over wistful, buzzing country blues, the alternating voices at points comforting, wry and hopelessly yearning. Stream / Purchase ‘Jelsy’ here.
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bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, on November 3rd via Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed album, Tracey Denim. The Twits was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally...
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