Some Like It Hot Vinyl

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians on the adventure path. It is funny, sexy, rambunctious and evergreen a showcase of a triplethreat cast at fullthrottle. Some Like It Hot is also the new album by London threepiece bar italia out October 17th on Matador and certain parallels are perhaps not accidental. It pulses with romance, intrigue, selfdiscovery and rapture over lustful rockers, spellbinding folk pop, punchdrunk ballads and undefinable moments that sneak up on you like a burst of 5pm sunshine. The record is the culmination of the joint world of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton three singersongwriters who have transcended their underground roots to embrace a bold, widescreen horizon.The synergy of this threeway blunt rotation is embedded in the trios DNA. Cristante brings a studied actors sensibility to vocals ranging from honeyed the aforementioned Marble Arch to hellbent and possessed rooster. Fehmi ranges from airy, brooding baritone Lioness to micchewing megaphone histrionics omni shambles. Fenton, a wispy tenor, can veer between mystical melodicism and soaring blueeyed soul within the same 8 bars Plastered.The cultivation of their sound, from early homespun recordings like hand drawn sketches the band presented an exhibition of their drawings in 2023 into the ceilingwide brush strokes of Some Like It Hot, was chiselled via a relentless writing and touring schedule. When bar italia emerged in 2023 from an underground following to release two critically acclaimed albums on Matador only several months apart the poised Tracey Denim and the grand The Twits they were a shy, eyecontactavoiding band, starting sets in darkness and just as soon disappearing backstage. They spent the next two years traversing the globe, with headline performances from Istanbul to Tokyo, soldout multinight stints in New York and Los Angeles, and festivals including Corona Capital, Glastonbury and Coachella. With over 160 shows worldwide across 20232024, they dispelled any mystique by becoming an exhibitionist and muscular fivepiece that gives multiple encores equally comfortable at festival moshpit incitement and moments of pindrop intimacy.Some Like It Hot is telling of this journey a collection of rock songs voraciously embracing the main stage. The lightning choruses of omni shambles and Eyepatch show a band who have mastered melding their idiosyncrasies into tightly coiled pop songs. A pining for tangibility abounds just show me the face that you039ve been trying to hide, Fenton opines on the Balkantinged waltz of bad reputation. Other songs surrender to abandon wholesale I was lost to the world from the moment we kissed, Fenton sings on rooster, while on the 12string new wave majesty of Lioness, Fehmi states, You have no idea what I can do for you when Im in this mood.bar italia have married their serious and heartfelt subject matter with a joy in showmanship. These are songs that twist their quirks into huge choruses, and find elevation in tension, playing with selfidentity, emotion and performance until the lines blur. That 1959 Hollywood classic from which the album takes its name ends with the immortal line Well, nobodys perfect. This, however, comes pretty close.