The four-year delay between Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons and Misery Is a Butterfly is attributed to Makino's recovery time after being trampled by a horse. In 2000 Picciotto also co-produced Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons with Ryan Hadlock, an album about the relationship between Makino and Amedeo Pace. Passéism Part 2" as well as lending it his vocals to the 1998 release. Picciotto also contributed in the construction to the song "Futurism vs. On their fourth album, In an Expression of the Inexpressible, Guy Picciotto of Fugazi was hired as producer. Subsequent albums featured Skúli Sverrisson, who the twins knew from their time in Boston. The band enlisted the help of Vern Rumsey of Unwound, who filled the role of guest bassist. Their third album, Fake Can Be Just as Good, was released through Touch & Go in 1997. Both records appeared on the New York label Smells Like.
Yasuda played on the band's second album La Mia Vita Violenta also released in 1995. Shortly afterwards, fourth member Maki Takahashi left the band and was replaced by her friend Toko Yasuda as bassist. īlonde Redhead's self-titled debut album was released in 1995. For the group's first decade or so, Amedeo and Makino were romantically involved in an on-and-off relationship. The band named themselves after a song on the 1981 EP A Taste of DNA by the no wave group DNA. Blonde Redhead formed in New York in 1993 after Amedeo and Simone met Kazu Makino, a film student at the time, through mutual friends. After earning Bachelor's degrees, they entered the New York City underground music scene. They have released ten studio albums and have toured internationally.Īmedeo and Simone Pace were born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Montreal ( Saint-Léonard), but later moved to Boston to study jazz. The band's earliest albums were noted for their noise rock influences, though their sound evolved by the early 2000s with the releases of Misery is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007), which both incorporated elements of dream pop, shoegaze and other genres. On October 30th, 2017, an orchestral remix of the track was uploaded by user Tommy Lapointe Blondin, gaining over 272,000 views.Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of Kazu Makino (vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar) and twin brothers Simone (drums, keyboards) and Amedeo Pace (lead guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) that formed in New York City in 1993. Several popular remixes appeared on YouTube after "Tales From the Citadel." A Trap remix of the track posted by Trap City on September 13th, 2017, gained over 32 million views (shown below, left). A piano cover of the track posted by ThePandaTooth on May 8th, 2017, gained over 1.7 million views (shown below, right). The theme saw some popularity prior to the airing of "Tales From the Citadel." An extended cut of the song posted by YouTuber Server on April 17th, 2017 gained over 10 million views (shown below, left). It became much more popular after it was used in the Season 3 episode "Tales From the Citadel," which aired September 10th, 2017 (shown below, right). The episode aired April 7th, 2014 (shown below, left). The song saw a slight surge in popularity when it was used in the Season 1 Rick and Morty episode "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" as the theme for Evil Morty.