Have a listen to these three Swedish chaps with a fondness for Italian synths, that we found on the Europopped blog last night. ItaLove and their new single and video, ‘Strangers In The Night’.
These guys love Italo Disco as much as we love Scandinavian Pop. And they too have thus coined themselves an appropriate moniker.
What we love most about ‘Strangers In The Night’ is its production. As you would expect from an act called ItaLove, they’ve paid a remarkable attention and respect to the Italo Disco genre. They’ve given the whole thing an authentic 80s feel, it’s been styled to perfection. But they’ve also gone and plonked a great big pop chorus over it – which as you know, always wins us over.
We do find ourselves wondering if they realise however, that the opening synth riff that’s then repeated thoughout, is near identical to the one used in Timoteij’s seminal ‘Glöd’……
