

Self-financed, the band embarked on a haphazard recording schedule with producer Drew Brown. Ī year later, the band started the project for their next album but without the support of 4AD. The band released a six-track remix EP in July 2011. For the subsequent tour the band added a key-board player. The album was again mixed by Alan Moulder, and reached 79 in the Billboard 200 chart. Their eighth album, Penny Sparkle, was released in September 2010 through 4AD. In March 2010 the band included a demo version of the song "Not Getting There" on a 4AD sampler entitled Fragments From Work In Progress. In 2009, Blonde Redhead contributed to the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released on Februa soundtrack album was released in July 2010.

In mid-2008, they wrote and recorded the score of the documentary feature film The Dungeon Masters. Alan Moulder mixed the trio's album 23 which was released on 4AD, in April 2007. In 2006 Makino recorded vocals for the film Sisters. Much of the visual and lyrical imagery of Misery Is a Butterfly is reflective of the accident, especially in the music video for "Equus." It was the last time Picciotto produced the band.

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. The band named themselves after a song on the 1981 EP A Taste of DNA by the no wave group DNA.īlonde Redhead's self-titled debut album was released in 1995. Blonde Redhead formed in New York in 1993 after Amedeo and Simone met Kazu Makino, an art student at the time, by chance at a local Italian restaurant. After earning Bachelor's degrees, they entered the New York City underground music scene. On October 30th, 2017, an orchestral remix of the track was uploaded by user Tommy Lapointe Blondin, gaining over 272,000 views.Amedeo and Simone Pace were born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Montreal ( Saint-Léonard), but later moved to Boston to study jazz. 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.
