The Pipettes

From their biog/manifesto thing:

There is a traditional historiography of popular music which in some way or another always seems to come back to the Beatles; and Lonnie Donegan who begat The Beatles, and Elvis who begat Lonnie Donegan, John Lee Hooker who begat Elvis and Robert Johnson who begat John Lee Hooker etc etc. But that is not what we are interested in here.

We don't love you (yeah, yeah, yeah).

We don't want to hold your hand.

So let us start in 1957, the year Phil Spector, aged 17, wrote and produced his first hit, "To Know Him is To Love Him", taking the title from his father's epitaph...

I haven't a clue who they are, but I likes the cut of their jib, I does.

Apparently GLC's manager was interesting in doing some stuff for them. Not bad for a band who have only played a handful of gigs.

they supported the Go! Team on their recent jaunt around the country, and made me smile and laff a lot when i caught their show in bristol.

very twee and innocent sounding power pop anthems with girl power infused lyrics ..

Good fun live though.

I'm sorry, I just don't get it.

It's a genre that I adore, a band I should love, but I've seen them a couple of times and they just leave me cold.

It just seems so very... studied. I don't know. It's a genre that should be about FUN!!! and sugar and humor and girly spontenaity. But there's just something so... not right about them. Perhaps it's my own prejudices at seeing a bunch of girls doing dance moves in front a bunch of male backing musicians rather than "doing it for themselves". But the overall impression is somehow the fun, the giggles, the girliness - what makes me LOVE this kind of music - has been sucked out of it, and it's just this limp ironic joke by a bunch of people who are doing it cause they think it's "cool" rather than through any genuine kind of love of the music.

Anyway... sorry. I wanted so badly to like them.

i love the new single! transgressive records rule.

Never mind, forget I even said anything. I give up.

And, well, Miss AMP to thread for a much more insightful, incisive and more FUN deconstruction of said Pipettes...

(Oh wait, see the above thread, it doesn't actually matter what the music sounds like, it will all be judged based on looks alone, sigh.)

(Is that the difference, that I'm basing my impressions on live performances rather than recorded output?)

Why shouldn't they be? Looks & image are clearly important to the band, and their onstage persona (and some of the songs too) gives me the impression that they know they're attractive & are taking advantage of the situation.

Even so, I love 'em. The two 45s are both fantastic, & live they're so much fun. Looking forward to hearing The Long Blondes sometime too.

Because the same considerations don't even get a look-in when males are discussing male bands.

I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but whatever it is that I love about girlgroup music - the fun, the fizz, the joy - it's lacking from them.

lets see if all this build up pays off once we actually get to hear some records ..

Oh wait, see the above thread, it doesn't actually matter what the music sounds like, it will all be judged based on looks alone, sigh.

Oh, come on I wasn't being entirely serious, I never implied that looks are all that mattered. Although I think in THIS PARTICULAR CASE looks are somewhat important. You've admitted, MISinformation that "the fun, the giggles, the girliness" is part of what you love about this music. What's wrong with adding "looks" to the mix. Plus I have to say I wasn't just refering physical beauty. In fact, its the outfits and the attitude what I like the most.

> Because the same considerations don't even get a look-in when males are discussing male bands.

i think they do, it's just that Ian McCulloch, say, or Jim Reid, or Kurt* or whoever are 'Cool' rather than 'Attractive'.

*Ralske obviously 8)

they played in london tonight and of course i didnt find out until it was too late. gah.

does anyone when the album is supposed to come out?

If you wanna talk about eye candy though, you should have seen the first openers, the Gypsy Queens (?) who were doing a sort of spoof Girls Aloud / Sugababes style thing. Maybe they were deadly serious? All I know is that the men in the crowd were really gawking at the undulating bodies of these scantily clad ladies.

Anyway, back to the Pipettes... If they are so popular, and their latest single is in the top 50 singles this week, how can they still have copies of their 2nd 7" (ltd to 1000 copies) still available for £3 at their shows? Is everybody just downloading them?

go to yahoo and sign in with the name the_pipettes and password abc123

St. Etienne to thread!

Also, "Dirty Mind" is very awesome.

It seems pretty clear that those girls are early to mid 20s. About my age, but slightly younger maybe.

Once interviewed Becki for a radio station back in Brighton. Why they are not more successful is beyond me.

gimmick central.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/37049/Video_The_Pipettes_Pull_Shapes#37049

oh amy, this is your favorite song of the year?

The album is maybe the worst production job I've heard in a while -- I was mostly pretty indifferent to their singles, but hoped they would pull things together for the full-length, and then that comes out -- turns out it's a synth-laden disaster. Like somebody decided, "you know what we have to do with this band? We have to make them into radio-pop!" And first of all, no, and second of all, the finished product doesn't even work by radio-pop standards. So now I actively dislike them.

Also, the album's full of really blatant filler.

Also also, the whole exercise strikes me as kind of sexist, and some of the lyrics are really questionable. A song like "Sex", in which the protagonist(s?) more or less revel in the fact that some guy is not actually interested in talking to them but just wants... well, you know... I mean, perhaps it's ironic? Should be clearer if so. Worst appropriation of the "Be My Baby" drum intro ever, at any rate.

In closing, eh.

...But I suppose (and this certainly seems like a cop out on my part, doesn't it?) it just comes down to personal aesthetic taste doesn't it? There's a part of me that really hopes this song becomes as big as "Dancing Queen" - and another, more irrational, part of me that KNOWS this song will become as big as "Dancing queen".

1. It is very happy.
2. The strings, they are quite good.
3. You can hear "There's a whole floor before us" as "There's a whole floppy forest", and that's quite silly.

the go! teams producer worked on the rcord i hear, so that might explain the resemblance. they sound like my life story with even less panache to me.

and then there's the little "scratching" sample? that's great! it's funny. that song is neck and neck with "what you know" for single of year for me.

how much fun would a fun-hater hate if a fun-hater hated fun?

It begs question whether taste need be an either/or proposition. Frankly, I feel that one may be openminded enough to enjoy both Wong Kar-Wai and Howard Hawks, Dostoyevsky and David Foster Wallace, and, in terms of mainstream pop music, Sugababes and Herman's Hermits. The past shouldn't be treated as a foreign country, after all.

ALSO: Yay Pipettes!

huh? it's as tight as you could ever want! it's bloody marvelous, it doesn't outstay its welcome and it has repeatedly made me laugh out loud on the tube.

the my life story comparison is not a million miles from the truth, either! and that's sure to sort the men from the boys.

the day looks are ignored when it comes to image-conscious bands is the day pop music dies, and anyone who seriously thinks a band's visual aesthetic is irrelevant or not worthy of judgement is naive to the extreme. kate, you know this really, stop being reactionary!

That's kind of the problem with the entire thing, isn't it? I like a couple of their songs alright, but after two or three minutes I just start wondering why I'm not listening to One Kiss Can Lead To Another instead.

I really like the drum sound on this record. I like how they've done a bigger production that uses that contemporary garage rock drum sound (fairly dry, crisp, and loud). It's fresh.

P.S. They're sexy.

And the perception of "sexy" takes up a lot of the male brain think-capacity. We all know this: male, female, gay, straight, whatever. We all know that most guys spend an awful lot of their time looking at "hot" bodies and thinking about what might be done with or to them, as depersonalized sex objects. (Hopefully, we're also grown up enough to realize that this is perfectly okay...)

The Pipettes know know that the boys are looking, as did the Ronettes and certainly Spector himself. Sure, they're speaking to other girls of/from shared experience, but they're also, very explicity, speaking to boys. And specifically, intentionally positioning themselves as objects-to-be-looked-at.
And lusted-over.
By boys.

So be it. And so what? That's what people do. It's what rock bands do. Just like the Strokes and Iggy Pop before them. Sex appeal appeals. Again, though, I suspect that everyone already knows this.

If the Pipettes didn't WANT their sex appeal to be an issue, they wouldn't make such an issue of it. And since they do so obviously want it to be an issue, I think it's perfectly appropriate to include it in the discussion.

I am quite nostalgic about Herman's Hermits. But I do not live in 1964.

I think sentimentality about the future is far more dangerous than sentimentality about the past.

I have only heard a couple of Pipettes tracks.

They sounded fairly good and witty to me.

It would be nice to have a Fuzzbox revival.

Pippettes image is not sexy, it is sterile, like their name.

If Uncut had existed in 1962 they would have been doing 30-page cover features on Vera Lynn.

I like their song, ABC! I would not like to see them live, because it's all a bit creepy. It's like the Sarah Cracknell effect manipulated to the max, more than one song can get quite unappetising. Also, MEN OF THE WORLD, there are grillions of gurlies who look like this if you just go to Brick Lane market or indeed to New Cross :( ... or do I mean :) I dunno!!

They sound nothing like the Beatles, nor especially like the Vernons Girls or the Caravelles.

Doubtless if they were middle-aged, hairy men replicating the period details of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Uncut writers would be disposed towards them more favourably.

I like to think of them - incidentally - as the Pie Pets, which is a much better name, don't you think?

Funnily enough, I have written about the Pipettes for Uncut. But I don't think I have written about many middle-aged hairy men! I do quite like that Midlake record though.

Funnily enough, The Pipettes are, in name at least, on the cover of the new Plan B! Big feature within, too, with much polka-dottage and excited/ing chatter.

can you expand on this Marcello? i thought it was an interesting remark.

never mind, i've seen the Stylus TOTP thing now.

God no. "Pull Shapes" is great, but it's hardly "Cruel Summer" is it?

It was most pleasant and attractive.

I think their album will make for fine and supple summer listening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffe/

You should play some Marvelettes - much better than Dross and the Supremes.

I actually think this "emotional flatness" is kind of characteristic of some early girl group stuff -- Diana Ross is almost too late -- and so, to an extent that it may be intentional. I do agree, however, that only one of them (Gwenno, noted above) really seems to be a good singer.

(hmm, well, I guess I disagree with Marcello on this. Maybe the live session will convince me I'm wrong)

?You should play some Marvelettes

i should HEAR some marvelettes! i have no idea where to start with any old girl groups. (while you're here marcello, where should i start with pre-tilt scott walker? i have never heard any of it!)

the pipettes sound fine on record, praise be to autotune, but i heard a live tv show they did and it was appalling, their voices are these awful out-of-tune caterwauling things which completely betray their lack of formal training (obv formal training is not a necessity by any means but if you are in a girl group and are singing HARMONIES it is best not to flaunt your vocal deficiencies)

However, since you asked...

steve, girls aloud sing (technically) badly on record too, but it doesn't matter because they don't sing material which requires much technical mastery.

Pardon me?

tom otm

oops, I just refreshed it
fuck

I'm not at all bothered by their voices, they add no more or no less to their songs than Girls Aloud, Rachel Stevens or any of the other several ILM-feted pop ciphers you could name. Also IT DOESN'T MATTER that they can't sing - male vocalists who can't sing get a free pass these days (unless you're Lex of course), it's very rare that female vocalists are afforded that luxury. Doesn't mean I'd want to see them live though, if only for the dodgy harmonies.

Still not as good as GA of course.

I'd still go see them live.

Who cares about vocal ability and autotune generally? Well, myself and Neko Case, to name two off the top of my head, but that's not really here nor there. I don't think there needs to be a rockism debate here.

They sound better on the record so I presume it's been autotuned.

the live session on radcliffe sounded very close to the single fwiw.

Like Konal, I liked Carlin's line about the future.

Like others, I am not sure it's wrong to be nostalgic, or to like things from the past.

Ewing's line about the 1980s was good - incisive, original, convincing: it's a Fascinating Aida revival, not Spector at all.

There is a traditional historiography of popular music which in some way or another always seems to come back to the Beatles; and Lonnie Donegan who begat The Beatles, and Elvis who begat Lonnie Donegan, John Lee Hooker who begat Elvis and Robert Johnson who begat John Lee Hooker etc etc. But that is not what we are interested in here.

...I cringe and cringe and cringe.

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in a nutshell.

i thought they were a joke or something.

unfinishable.

"not so much retro as they are post-retro, the product of an age in which progression in pop music has all but been replaced by cultivation and fusion"

"That the Pipettes are doing Shangri-La's impersonations on stage is almost a moot point."

or

"The twist is meant to be that these three are sexually aggressive, have read their French feminism, own some riot grrrl records, and have distinct, unique personalities in a sort of Spice Girls way."

I could also swear that there was a line in the review early yesterday morning that has since been removed about how The Arcade Fire and Band of Horses should be playing arenas but have to settle for just being indie bands because there is no justice!!

Not a bad article, that, except they missed out the stripy French fisherman's jumper.

horrid

I actually think Pitchfork writing is pretty decent at times, and while I didn't express it (it was late and I was hoping others would start some discussion) the review should be a talking point because it 1) apologizes for faux-retro irony in the lamest possible terms, 2) gives them feminism shoutouts while glossing over the four boys who play the music, and 3) hilariously attempts to give indie-pop some kind of big-scheme importance or cultural weight.

And I know it's irrelevant outside the USA. Do you think that I care? Ignore the topic, brotha. It's easy, there are plenty more.

I find them trying for this big 60s girl group sound and getting it so badly wrong actually endearing (big crashing drums etc). If they'd been a faithful facsimile of their influences I doubt I'd find them anywhere NEAR as entertaining.

agreed

and there's nothing faux

ahem

or ironic

HAHAHA

about these aspects.

2.
a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" Richard Kain.
b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity.

I mean, you could MAYBE argue that there was incongruity when SHA NA NA first appeared on the scene, but I would think retroisms have become established as fairly commonplace over the last couple of decades.

Maybe it's a sincere homage to the music/style they love, more likely it's a visual stunt to attract comments along the lines of "well aren't they cute." I don't know if I'd be more concerned about male fans who kinda got off on it, or those that didn't.

It wouldn't even be that bad a song if not for the obnoxious cheerleader-style shouting of the title. Am I supposed to take that any way other than as irony in 2006?

That the Pipettes are doing Shangri-La's impersonations on stage is almost a moot point.

That is an apology. That is what an apology sounds like. Whether it was necessary or not I don't really care, but he clearly wants to gloss over the fact that the Pipettes are pushing their image at least as hard as their songs.

The disappointing thing about the album is that the fellow from Go! Team is involved in the production. On paper I would really like to hear a bricabracolage skip hop girl group along the lines of the G!T but with, you know, songs and harmonies and stuff. But the way the record turned out is sooooo weedy.

Again, what is ironic about it?

I was making a crass rhetorical point, get over it. It's too hot in here...

INDIE

a proper pop group would have not got anything wrong. shiny shiny perfect facsimiles all the way

The Puppini Sisters. Why on earth were you watching ITV3?!

cracker repeats!

i dunno tim, when you say "clunky or clumsy" i just think : yes, it is those things. as for their vocals yes, i guess they sound "fine" but they're a vocal group, right? vocal groups should sound great vocally!

(i have only heard two songs - the ones on their site with videos)

What are the perceived imperfections on "Pull Shapes?" I don't really get it. Is it really much more clunky or clumsy than, say, Bananarama?

they're a lot shoutier and 'reaching' more than Bananarama because the song seems to demand it but as they really seem only in the same league as Bananarama as singers it's not totally convincing (but still endearing perhaps).

Have you been walking around with your eyes closed for the last few months? They're everywhere!

In 2006, when you hear cheerleader-style shout vocals, are they immediate and relevant? Do you take them and enjoy them for what they are with no added weight from musical or cultural history? Or, do you understand them through a lens that creates a distancing effect, as in "oh isn't it funny that pop music sounded like this once and now someone is doing it again." Irony is the gap between apparent meaning and intended meaning. Am I intended to take the Pipettes at face value? Of course not. Their music and image are intended to conjure up all kinds of associations to the past, and lead me to eventually agree that they are just so cute.

I don't understand what you mean by "immediate." What is something in pop music now that is immediate in a way the Pipettes are not? It is of no concern to me whether those vocals are *relevant*.

Do you take them and enjoy them for what they are with no added weight from musical or cultural history?

Of course not, but the same could be said for any specific style-connoting element in any contemporary cultural object. Am I supposed to find them all ironic? They seem to be more standard course now.

Or, do you understand them through a lens that creates a distancing effect, as in "oh isn't it funny that pop music sounded like this once and now someone is doing it again."

That's the thing - I don't find it funny. Was it funny when Tracey Ullman did it? I suppose the Pipettes are a little more goofy, but I don't see as that this makes them ironic. My response to them is not, "Oh, that's ironic that they are doing something with a little sort of '60s girl group style. Who would have imagined?"

I would dispute that. There are surely plenty of things with gaps between apparent and intended meaning that one would not identify as "ironic."

When I see/hear a longhaired pretty boy hammer a distorted guitar, I automatically think, "This music and image are intended to conjure up all kinds of associations to the past, and lead me to eventually agree that he is just so cool." Right?

'Cuz all musical choices must be read as meta-recursive signifiers pointing to the fact that they're pointing while also pointing to other things. Right?

God, that's exhausting...

Ba-dump-bump.

How come no one's laughing?

Retro/gimmick/kitsch novelty or no, their version of "Wuthering Heights" just gave me the biggest smile I've had in days.

We can only wish the Pipettes had a "They Don't Know" on this album. There's an example of a girl group pastiche that actually works.

Re "Pull Shapes" - I think the "I like to disco/to rock & roll/to hip hop" is a key to what I don't like about this album. It's way too Spice Girls/"Wannabe." It's like they're trying their hardest to get everyone up and dancing, but everyone's just staring blankly.

I'm just saying that it's an approach that doesn't suit this particular project.

2 brilliant songs (pull shapes and judy). but the rest range from good to blatant filler.

Everyone who has reviewed the Pipettes album, yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zihW7WCYMs

what you or i might call an "autobiography".

-- Rowlando for the kidz (samonkeyuk...), September 14th, 2006.

What songs have the name Rowlando in them?!

it was pretty good as a review of their website. didn't see much in it about the music. maybe he thinks the website is more important, which could be true, i don't know since i haven't looked at the website. none of which dislodges "pull shapes" from my singles-of-the-year list.

I like "Simon Says" though. A B-side somewhere, I only have it on mp3.

I'd forgotten all about the Pipettes.

The album is released next week over here in North America. Can't wait to hear it.

I saw them a few months ago in Seattle. Great show, and shows generally bore me these days.

they certainly know their audience:
________

The Pipettes kick off Carling Weekend: Reading Festival

Before playing 'Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me', Pipettes singer Gwenno Saunders awkwardly adjusted her top, saying, "Just got to sort myself out, sexy!" sarcastically, before adding, "I might as well just get my tits out!" to laughter and cheering from the crowd.

Later in the set, before 'Guess Who Ran Off With The Milkman', singer Rose Dougall said, "I've got bronchitis, but I'm still going to get bladdered this weekend!" prompting more cheering

_______

http://www.nme.com/news/readingleeds-festival/30620

I'm sure their second album will feature many hit singles and not result in them being dropped from their label.

I stand by my Quagmire post upthread.

a reduced recording budget might be good for them

Oh, are they still around?

RIP

Jokes, bruv.

Heard "Pull Shapes" for the first time in ages today. Still awful.

GWENNO IS FIT

rose's solo single is pretty good, no great departure from pipettes-a-like-ness but no slouch either

b-side is more like camera obscura

I heard this in the record store not too long ago. First time I heard it, I liked it a lot. Second time, not so much.

her new indie "edgy" look is pretty silly.

"new"

i dunno, she's pretty, seems like she's trying to cover that up so people will take her seriously.

That single's so-so. I don't see that cover photo as trying to cover up her hotness, exactly.

yeah i was kinda scratching my head about that

x-post Well it's kind of impossible to cover up Rosay's hotness isn't it? And, what would be the point?

I kind of like the single. At least is the first time that doesn't sound like she's totally obsessed with Broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDYzPCfo-Q

her new indie "edgy" look is pretty silly.

― keythkeythkeyth, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Indie, yes. Edgy, not so much.

Can you point me in the direction of this stuff that's supposed to sound like Broadcast? I don't hate this, but I might like that better.

(and yes, several years on, I still prefer the Long Blondes. Surprise surprise.)

good lord, five years since the pipettes?

Going by the stuff on YouTube, I might like this. Will probably pick up the album. I need some summer girl fun with added extra Farfisa.

Can you point me in the direction of this stuff that's supposed to sound like Broadcast? ...

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Friday, June 26, 2009 10:15 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

She had a couple of tracks on myspace that are no longer there. I think one of them was "Another Version of Pop Song".

Kate, have you heard Help Stamp Out Loneliness?

http://www.myspace.com/helpstampoutloneliness

"Torvill & Dean" is the big winner as far as my ears are concerned but I have both the 7"s and all four sides are worth yr time.

also yes, Long Blondes > Pipettes for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

jj is not very broadcast but they would definitely appeal to someone who was a fan of broadcast. very beautiful. i think. rose's songs in the pipettes were mostly a drag, i just listened to this single, bah. i guess i am the only one to think her new look is silly, ok.

Any thoughts on the new EP? It has its moments but We Are the Pipettes is seeming more and more like a fortunate accident.

The lineup's really different from what it was, so I'm not too surprised. Haven't liked any of the singles that came out since then.

there's only been this one? unless you're talking about rose elinor dougall's solo stuff

The spaceman song is great. The stop the music song is an atrocity. But then listening to the album now reveals about the same hit to miss ratio.

lol remember "the pipettes"?

Perhaps I was thinking of the "Stop the Music" single, but I vaguely remember they put out another song on their myspace with the lineup in-between the album group and the current one. Either way, I wasn't really enthused. I'll keep an ear out for this.

lol remember "the pipettes"?

pretty sure this thread indicates some people do, yes.

still waiting for rose's solo album, but 'find me out' is really great.

My brother started this thread

they never did end up putting out anything on 5:15

new album is kinda awful and yet i'm enjoying it quite a lot

not as good as rose's solo lp

Gwenno's album is fantastic. I think it's been re-released already, but I'm not sure. It's out on Heavenly--was out on Peski, a Welsh label, originally. You must check it out. I am not a Pipettes fan, but I think it's one of the best albums I've heard in ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CldPv3-VHmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleVny7jz7Q

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/Gwenno-YDyddOlafBonusDiscEdition-HeavenlyRecordings-104291.html

Out on the 24th. It's getting all kind of great reviews now that it's being re-released. Get on it.

ya I cosign
this is wonderful

yeah this album is really good

How was that last Pipettes album she did with her sister? There's got to be something good about it.

http://thequietus.com/articles/18396-tongue-of-the-dragon-a-look-at-welsh-language-outsider-pop

Aug Stone talks to Gwenno & Dr. Sarah Hill, and Rhys Mwyn, to give an introduction to some Cymric musical pioneers

Ooh, Y Dydd Olaf is wonderful, though I'm not sure if people after this kind of Broadcast/Bachelorette-esque vibe would click on a Pipettes thread ... fits in nicely with this year's Susanne Sundfør album, in a way. Has anyone encountered the novel it's based upon?

yeah i almost feel like it deserves its own thread, because i have zero interest in the pipettes but this gwenno record is wonderful.

I agree.

Picked this up today, it's great.

I really liked the first Pipettes album but never took to the second one.

Those tracks up there didn't enthuse me, but I guess I'm always hoping for a return to their first album sound.

The Gwenno record is on my to-do list but just checking y'all have heard Rosay's solo album from 2010 yeah?

Yeah, Without Why is a great record. Keep hoping that she'll bring out a follow up.

I wasn't really into the Gwenno album the first time I played it but I find myself going back to it a lot. The production is just gorgeous.

As for The Pipettes, I still love that debut. The second album was a massive disappointment, especially after Stop The Music was such a brilliant lead single.

Rosa's album is very good, yes, though I was a little taken aback that it came out that long ago!

May give the second Pipettes another go.

Poor Riot Becki.

Well this Gwenno album is a lot better than I could have ever expected. Most of it sounds like the midpoint between Broadcast's "Tears In The Typing Pool" and Saint Etienne's "Avenue" with a Krautrock influence.

Just listened to that Gwenno record for the first time. Nice. I like that description

I don't know how I'm just discovering Gwenno solo. I think I dismissed the first youtube above on first listen and stop paying attention... but man, she's got a handful of excellent songs!

Interesting to see how both Rose and Gwenno have independently released material that is very obviously Broadcast-influenced, yet nothing the Pipettes ever did sounded even remotely like Broadcast.

Rose's new album is available now! It's delightful

Yeah, Rose's new album is fantastic. Without Why was crazy underrated. This one might be even better.

I too have been impressed with 'Stellular'!

Rose's album is amazing

this is also nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhBuvVCHC9w

Cool, that's the best song on the album.

I read something recently where she said Broadcast are her favourite band. That makes a lot of sense going on her solo work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rCeygWexyA

New Gwenno on Friday.

Looking forward to this. The single is gorgeous.

I've got the album. It's good; a fair bit slower than her first. I can't hear much of a difference between sung Cornish and Welsh, to be honest with you. Sensing a nice grower.

yeah we just heard a song off this and it's sounding very promising

Man, Gwenno's Le Kov is great. I'm not sure I like it as much as the last one, but it's growing on me the more I return to it!

Rose's third solo album came out on Friday. That's three great albums in a row. Shame she doesn't get the attention she deserves.

i liked "stellular" a lot, i'll have to check this new one

It's a bit more mellow and stripped back that Stellular but equally as gorgeous.

Solo Rose is more Broadcasty, right?

Last album was brilliant yeah; fantastic production too.

Solo Rose is more Broadcasty, right?

― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee)

The first two albums were quite Broadcasty yeah. She's named them as her favourite band before.

haha my housemate's in a band with riotbecki. see thru hands. manchester based.

I feel like somehow it would make perfect sense to reform the Pipettes in some capacity given how Gwenno and Rose have each made excellent records on their own that sound surprisingly similar considering how different they are sound from the original Pipettes material.

I most admit though that I find Rose's records a bit anachronistic. Like the would sound great in the turn it the century, not so much now.

*turn OF the century

Combining modular synth, saxophone, and a medieval lute, Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall create an album of pastoral disquiet and itchy post-punk edge.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-waeve-the-waeve/

This album is very good. Bit Talk Talk-y at times, kind of a languid Soul feel to others.