bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, on November 3, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim. The Twits was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. The thirteen new tracks find bar italias economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally sinister, and wholly committed turns. Songs like "my little tony", with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks, the cathartic four-on-the-floor of worlds greatest emoter and the festival tent psychede- lia of "Hi-fiver" need little in the way of exposi- tion - these are exhilarating rock songs, if wayward and strange. Released in May, bar italias Matador debut Tracey Denim followed a string of word-of-mouth releases on Dean Blunts World Music label and received widespread attention from publications including The Guardian ("one of the albums of 2023 so far"), The Times ("excellent debut album"), The Observer (Artist To Watch), NME ("a lasting impression thats all of their own making"), The Quietus ("endlessly evocative") and Pigeons And Planes ("quickly establishing themselves as one of the most enticing upcoming bands"). Single "Nurse!" was playlisted on BBC 6 Music and received spins from BBC Radio 1, Absolute Radio and NTS. The release was accompanied by a UK tour, culminating in a sold-out headline show at the ICA in London, which The Spectator described as "transfixing. They just make their beautiful, off-kilter music, and let you unfold your own stories on top".