Deep Gems

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Deep Gems
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Compilation album by Glass Candy
Released October 28, 2008 (2008-10-28)
Recorded March 2006 – October 2008; Suite 304 (Portland, Oregon) [1]
Genre
Length49:06
Label Italians Do It Better
Producer Johnny Jewel
Glass Candy chronology
B/E/A/T/B/O/X
(2007)		Deep Gems
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media 5.1/10 [2]
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Deep Gems is a collection of singles, B-sides, and rarities by American electronic music duo Glass Candy, released in October 2008 by the Italians Do It Better label.

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Glass Candy is an American electronic music duo from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1996 by vocalist Ida No and producer and multi-instrumentalist Johnny Jewel. The band is part of the Italians Do It Better label. While the band's early work blends elements of no wave, art punk, and glam rock, their later work incorporates synth-pop and Italo disco.

Italians Do It Better

Italians Do It Better is an independent record label based in Portland and Los Angeles. The label was started by Johnny Jewel and Mike Simonetti in 2006 to focus on Jewel's projects Glass Candy and Chromatics and later Desire, Symmetry and Mirage, in addition to other artists from prior releases. Genres from the label have been described as contributing to the synth-pop, post-punk and Italo-disco revivals. They have released two label compilations, 'After Dark' (2007) and 'After Dark 2' (2013), both of which featured music from their roster.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Glass Candy, except where noted.

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Introduction"  0:47
2."Feeling Without Touching"  2:49
3."Poison or Remedy"  3:42
4."Animal Imagination"  6:04
5."The Beat's Alive"  4:48
6."Something Stirring in Space"  5:02
7."Theme from Deep Gems"  1:29
8."Stars & Houses"  3:50
9."Geto Boys" Sugarboy Crawford Isaac Hayes 3:48
10."Ms. Broadway Remix"Evelyne Lenton Albert Weyman 6:07
11."Soft Boundaries"  3:42
12."Touching the Morning Mist"  4:30
13."Silver Fountain"  7:03
Notes
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B/E/A/T/B/O/X is the second studio album by American electronic music duo Glass Candy, released in November 2007 by Italians Do It Better. The album received two limited-edition vinyl pressings in 2008, both including a bonus 7″, and one of them pressed on pink vinyl. A new blue vinyl edition was released in April 2010, including the same bonus 7".

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Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Deep Gems. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Deep Gems (CD liner notes). Glass Candy. Italians Do It Better. 2008. IDIB011CD.
  2. ↑ Hogan, Marc (January 28, 2009). "Glass Candy: Deep Gems". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Beta, Andy (February 19, 2009). "Glass Candy, 'Deep Gems' (Italians Do It Better)". Spin . Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
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