Bar Italia - Some Like It Hot (2025)
Some Like It Hot embraces looseness and detachment as its core identity. bar italia strip their songs down to fragments, letting murky guitars and half-murmured vocals drift through a deliberately low-fidelity mix. The album prioritizes mood and posture over clarity, often sounding unfinished by design.
Tracks settle into their ideas quickly and withdraw before developing further. This gives the record a consistent sense of distance, but it also limits momentum. Emotional cues remain vague, and structures resist progression, keeping the album locked in a narrow expressive range.
The strength of Some Like It Hot lies in its commitment to restraint. The aesthetic is clear and sustained, but the refusal to expand or deepen keeps the record from leaving a stronger impression. It functions more as a series of gestures than as a fully formed statement.
Genre: Indie Rock
Country: UK
Final Verdict: 60% (Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 722th / 874
Highlight: Fundraiser
Made me think of:
Dry Cleaning
Horsegirl
MJ Lenderman
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