Bar Italia rose out of the London rock underground with their own seductive guitar buzz, three criminally cool types at home in the dark. They made their big splash in 2023 with two ace albums for Matador, Tracey Denim and The Twits . But their terrific new Some Like It Hot is even cockier, steamier, more insistent — one of the year’s kickiest indie-rock thrillers. All three trade off deadpan boy/girl vocals: Jezmi Tarik Fehmi the desperately lovesick gasping-for-breath one, Sam Fenton the cleverly reserved one, Roman expat Nina Cristante the taunting chanteuse.

Bar Italia are definitely not shy about showing off their moody rock influences — a little Slowdive, a lot of the Cure, plenty of the Velvets and Spacemen 3 and Sonic Youth. All over Some Like It Hot , they mix up postpun

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