bar italia

London's bar italia craft woozy, moody indie rock equally informed by post-punk, shoegaze, and lo-fi without ever sounding too indebted to any of these styles. Early on, the London trio were affiliated with Dean Blunt's World Music, and releases such as 2020's Quarrel and 2021's Bedhead were of a piece with the label's sludgy, hallucinatory experiments. With 2022 singles like "Banks" and 2023's full-lengths Tracey Denim and The Twits, bar italia took a slightly more polished approach that didn't sacrifice any of their volatile, hypnotic essence. Though bar italia kept a rela...