Glass Candy makes good mood music to chill to, dance to, mack to. Yes - it’s good for that mood, too. I first heard Glass Candy at the end of a late night last year as the DJ spun whatever he wanted for the last of us, lounging on club furniture as if it were our own and refusing to go home. That song, “Rolling Down the Hills,” was heady and atmospheric, enough to disorient and make me want more as I decided to leave and not be the last girl standing when all the lights came on.

Singer Ida No, producer Johnny Jewel and drummer Dusty Sparkles are the Portland trio behind Glass Candy’s contemporary disco/electro sound. While they can channel Blondie circa “Rapture” and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at times, they also have fun being themselves and working hip-hop, disco, rock and punk beats into a just-right Glass Candy groove.

Tonight, Glass Candy continues their maiden voyage to the UK with a stop at London’s Cargo with DJ/Producer/Label Owner Mike Simonetti on the turntables. The multi-titled impresario behind the Italians Do It Better label, to which Glass Candy is signed, is bound to heat things up before Glass Candy washes you down with that groove. Sure to end some peoples into the street swooning.

For a taste of Glass Candy, click here and for tix to tonight’s Cargo show, click here.

Cargo
83 Rivington St
Kingsland Viaduct
Shoreditch
£12