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There’s a scene in an old comic book?Strange Tales #178, by Jim Starlin?where we see a recently killed young woman’s corpse, reanimated and hovering in midair, telling the story of her life and death. Her eyes are vacant; it’s no longer her own will that’s keeping her in the world; she has no emotion left to express, but there are words that still have to come out of her. That’s what Farah’s “L...
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Johnny Jewel: She was in Texas doing a cover set of Glass Candy songs. Her dad videotaped it and she mailed us a VHS copy. We were totally blown away. One of the strangest things we had ever seen. Next time we were in Texas, I called her, asked her to open for us and invited her onstage to sing our last song. When we got there she handed me a manila folder full of lyrics. That night she did hal...
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The Italians' name implies that what you're going to get is somehow related to Italo disco, yet it's anything but. The tempo hardly reaches into the triple digits. Instead, "Italians," here, means the soundtrack work of Goblin for horror director Dario Argento. This is dread disco, full of portent and prophetic dreams; a track that's perfect for your next Halloween party.
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With Glass Candy touring with Architecture in Helsinki and Chromatics getting played out by Get Physical’s Dixon, it’s no surprise that Farah, Texas’ Italians Do It Better representative, is on the same path to lo-fi disco domination. Featuring the super-tripped-out, repetitive “Law of Life” and a slightly more banging remix and instrumental, this debut is mystic fire.
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