Glass Candy Release Comp, Seven-Inch, Play Shows in Canada

BY Brock ThiessenPublished Oct 23, 2008

After winning over more than a few electro-savvy listeners with last year’s Beatbox and the near-classic After Dark comp, Glass Candy have lined up a pile of new goods for the now-disco-loving masses.

First up, the duo’s Ida No and Johnny Jewel have dropped word of a new rarities collection, titled Deep Gems. The 12-track disc comes boasting a pile of unreleased gems — ten to be exact — recorded between March 2006 and October 2008, as well as a new remix of "Miss Broadway” and the 12-inch version of their much-loved "Geto Boys.” Also, if you’ve been waiting to score Beatbox on wax, Glass Candy have finally pressed it up on vinyl and packaged it with a new seven-inch called Back to Back Midnight Classics, which boasts two new exclusive tracks: "High B” and "The Gate.”

Glass Candy are giving away Deep Gems at their Italians Do It Better CD release party this weekend in Portland, and presumably putting it for sale at their webshop and physical retailers shortly thereafter. As for the Beatbox vinyl edition, you can get that one here right now.

On top of delving into the vaults for these releases, according to a post on the Italians Do It Better blog, Glass Candy have been "in the studio every possible moment working on a new LP for 2009.” However, when in 2009, they didn’t say.

In the meantime, the band have a handful of forthcoming live dates, three of which are on Canadian soil. Here they are, along with the tracklisting to Deep Gems:

1. "Introduction”
2. "Feeling Without Touching”
3. "Animal Imagination”
4. "The Beat’s Alive”
5. "Something Stirring in Space”
6. "Theme From Deep Gems”
7. "Morning Mist”
8. "Geto Boys”
9. "Miss Broadway” (Remix)
10. "Soft Boundaries”
11. "Stars & Houses”
12. "Silver Fountain”


Glass Candy live dates:

10/25 Portland, OR - Rotture w/ Mike Simonetti, Farah and Nite Jewel
10/31 Vancouver, BC - Sweatshop
11/7 Toronto, ON - Wrong Bar
11/8 Montreal, QC - Le Gymnase (2nd floor)
12/3 Miami, FL - TBA
12/6 Barcelona, Spain - TBA

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