Earlier this month we previewed Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter, the new album by Toronto-via-Turin songwriter Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, coming soon via Quindi Records and We Are Time. Described by Quindi as “his most sweeping, absurd, and emotionally acute statement to date,” the full-length sees FDM embrace what he calls his Poetic Jazz Rock style, a descriptor which began as a private joke but came to feel wholly apt. Lead single ‘Full of Fire’ offered the first glimpse at the maximalist spirit of the release. “A song,” as we put it, “which takes inspiration from iconoclasts like Annette Peacock, Rickie Lee Jones, Donald Byrd, Brigitte Fontaine and Fabrizio De André to paint love as something equal parts fond and fatal.”
With the release of the album now only a month away, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti has returned with brand new single ‘A Perfect Pair’. Another track as fun as it is assured, encapsulating the cool spirit of the Poetic Jazz Rock aesthetic. A richly languid groove is matched by FDM’s near-spoken vocals, leading to something uber smooth and a little tongue-in-cheek. The song is inspired by Joan Didion’s Democracy, and takes its title from a line in the novel. “Everyone hates Joan Didion right now but that doesn’t matter to me because I love her sentences,” as Marinetti explains. “I also love baroque pop in the Brigitte Fontain/John Cale/Teho Teardo mold. The warm horns that enter midway through make me feel like I’m taking a magic carpet ride.”
