Glass Candy

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Glass Candy
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Portland’s Glass Candy has been bringing the italo-disco vibes for more than a dozen years, long before it was cool. They have crowds jumping around uncontrollably to synth, dancing while the music does its magic work. By the end of a Glass Candy show, you don’t know what just happened, but you feel pretty good about it. Singer Ida No and keyboardist (well, he’s more of a renaissance man that plays just about everything else on the record) Johnny Jewel, of Chromatics, met while working at a Portland grocery store and formed Glass Candy in 1996. The two began to make dark, analog dance music reminiscent of an ‘80s horror film soundtrack, one where most of the action takes place on Halloween, way after dark in backrooms of night clubs.

The band released their first studio album, Love Love Love, on the respected indie Troubleman Unlimited, and Johnny Jewel went on to form a dance label, Italians Do It Better, with Troubleman’s owner. Glass Candy’s second album B/E/A/T/B/O/X (2007), earned them heaps of praise from music critics and fans alike. Ida No sings over some dark dance beats, like a pretty Robert Smith (you know, from “A Forest” era Cure). The music is serious, but still fun enough to get you moving even when you’re on public transit and everyone keeps staring at you. With their analog approach to dance, Glass Candy has enthralled (for years, now) an audience that has sometimes become all too focused on computer noise.

But it’s still the live show that gets most fans worked up. The band emerges in a fog lit with jewel toned lights. Ida No, typically barefoot, gets on stage and lets the music take her into various dances smooth and rhythmic, with the crowd hooked on every tiny move. Johnny Jewel, bent over his instrument, jumps and bobs, sweating like a party maniac. If you’re ready for something truly special, get to the front of the Glass Candy audience, you’ll be rewarded with all the energy you need to dance (and sweat) the night away.

LAUREN ROSENTHAL

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