For much of their career, bar italia have existed at a crossroads, always alternating between two types of mystery: that of bedroom experimentalists and that of indie cool kids.
In the early days, fans of the Dean Blunt-led world music scene from which they emerged struggled to rationalize it. Sometimes the band seemed to offer the same obtuse pleasures as their experimental forefather, while at other times they simply delivered great songs. The band’s own sound reflects this, with its odd mix of endlessly catchy guitar riffs and slacker amateurism. Even the interviews maintained their mystery; the band appeared so unpretentious that some began to perceive pretension in them. People often project ideas onto bar italia, rather than confront…

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