Enigmatic Portland band, Glass Candy, plays Soho tonight with openers Chromatics.  Glass Candy is the duo of Ida No and Johnny Jewel, and they clearly don’t play by the normal promotion rules.  You can barely find any meaningful info about them on the entire interwebs.  About all we could unearth is that they’ve just (re)released two songs, Beautiful Object and Warm in the Winter.  Oh, and a video or two (see one way below).  Both songs have a retro electro-disco backbone to them, with Beautiful Object reminding us of Destroyer’s recent retro-sound in Kaputt, but with Blondie on vocals.  It’s melodically insidious and has been on repeat at Chez Lefort since we first heard it.  Warm in the Winter starts out with a Where the Streets Have No Name-esque intro before shifting into love-rave mode that’s bound to get you moving live. Check out these songs and video below.

Beautiful Object

“In love’s golden ocean
No emotion
Fake a smile for charity
Cry in trauma for the drama
Oh no
Real love a golden rarity
Beautiful object
Ooh
I hang them from the walls and ceiling
What more can I do
I want to put my hands deep into feeling
Hands only get so far
Depth for me is just a possibility
And all my misguided desire
Will freeze me deep with pent-up hostility
What’s the meaning of the mask
You can’t be asked
Oh oh
Is life a social fiction?
Not to see but be seen
Oh no
Now that’s a ghost’s ambition
Beautiful object
Ooh
As if a pretty face is so revealing
Hey what I can do
If what I’ve got isn’t as appealing
Beautiful object
Ooh
Soul is sold to portray a perfection
A beautiful object true
It’s just a parody of a person”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-g4QxTndRk&feature=player_embedded

And then there’s Warm in the Winter:

“Love is in the air… love is in the air
We’re warm in the winter
Sunny on the inside
Love is in the air
I’m crazy like a monkey
Ee ee / Oo oo!
Happy like a new year
Yeah yeah / Woo hoo!
That’s right everybody
This is Glass Candy
Making our way around the world
Searching out a face-to-face with you
One more time
Looking for a heart-to-heart
Whenever you’re ready
We want you to know
If ever you should look in the mirror
And wonder who it is that you are
And wonder what it is that you came for
Well… I know the answer
You’re beautiful
You came from heaven
You came down to this place
To fill out the dark corners
With your everlasting light
And that’s why… I love you
We love you
C’mon shout / Hey shout
Shout
Yeah you
I love you
We love you”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX922LVpULM&feature=player_embedded