Tim F said:I really liked Glass Candy's "Sugar & Whitebread" (abstracted Blondie-meets-ESG shimmering post-punk-disco, basically a femme vox version of "Me & Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard") but then i bought the album by them which preceded it and wasn't terribly impressed.
Glass Candy are extremely variable............ and the records that they actually put out arnt always that representative of what theyre doing. i think thier label had to hold them down and force them to put out an LP.
Whats properly good in my opinion is the tour demos they put out on home made cdrs (tho post-punk=disco is getting a bit old... and if you have an implicit hatred of this kind of revivalism it aint gonna be for you anyway)
i can send rips out to people who are interested, some of them are noisy, some of them are 100% echo fake dub, some of them are heavily cleaned up disco... did you hear the newer single 'IKO!'?
the main musician in Glass Candy just joined Chromatics to play keyboards and thier new demo is very much in that disco manner, rather than the drum machine drone post punk thing of the second lp... or the riot girlish joy division which was the first incarnation...
Other things i'd go for are Oshiri PenPenz / tenouti yomezou, BARR (obsessive compulsive), gang gang dance, white magic / quix*o*tic, metalux, trin-tran, soft circle, new england roses, spider and the webs, bloodlines, squids