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‘ long-awaited single ‘Stop The Music’ is released on April 19th. You can pre-order it here, if you so desire. Fortunately the video is better than the one for free download ‘Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen‘.
The group’s second album ‘Earth vs The Pipettes’ is set for a June 28th release. We wonder if The Wildhearts inspired that title?



試管美梅 The Pipettes
專輯名稱 : 我們是試管美梅
We Are The Pipettes

Label Interscope
Release Date Oct 02, 2007

The debut album from the British girl group inevitably invites comparisons to older groups that came before them like Bananarama as well as The Shangri-La's, The Crystals, The Shirelles, The Ronettes and the like. But these gals are very much a part of the post-women's lib generation, not indebted to or needing men for their own happiness! They have more in common with The Ramones, who understood and appreciated their antededents and fully embrace their strengths while forging ahead with music for the 21st Century on their own terms. Produced by Andy Dragazis (Blue States) and Gaz Parton (The Go! Team), the album includes the singles "Dirty Mind" (re-recorded here), "Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me" and "Pull Shapes". This edition adds a bonus track, "Really That Bad".

Includes 1 bonus track.Rolling Stone (p.124) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Mean, moody and magnificent, the Pipettes hit girl-group heaven in the disco surge of 'Pull Shapes'..."
Spin (p.136) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "'Pull Shapes' and 'One Night Stand' make delicious dessert treats..."
Vibe (p.132) - "Their debut is a post-punk, post-feminist take on 1960s girl-group pop: cruel, sardonic, and dance-floor forward."



Label Memphis Industries Ltd.
Release Date Aug 14, 2006

Taking the prefabricated elements of the 1960s girl-group concept to their post-modern extreme, Brighton, England's Pipettes revel in the choreographed bubblegum-and-bouffant chic of groups like the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las, but also maintain ... Full Descriptionan electro-pop sheen that places them squarely in the new millennium. The group's 2006 debut, WE ARE THE PIPETTES, could easily be called a gimmick if not for the group's mastery of what is ultimately the key element of the girl-group aesthetic--gloriously catchy pop tunes. While songs like "Pull Shapes" and "Judy" lack the palpable emotionalism of the best of the original groups, they possess a nostalgic twinkle and a cheeky attitude that are almost impossible to dismiss.

The Pipettes: Riotbecki, Rosay, Gwenno.

Additional personnel: Monster Bobby (guitars); Seb (keyboards); Jon (bass guitar); Robin (drums); the Cassette.

Rolling Stone (p.124) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Mean, moody and magnificent, the Pipettes hit girl-group heaven in the disco surge of 'Pull Shapes'..."
Spin (p.136) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "'Pull Shapes' and 'One Night Stand' make delicious dessert treats..."
Vibe (p.132) - "Their debut is a post-punk, post-feminist take on 1960s girl-group pop: cruel, sardonic, and dance-floor forward."

1. We Are The Pipettes
2. Pull Shapes
3. Why Did You Stay
4. Dirty Mind
5. I t Hurts To See You Dance So Well
6. Judy
7. A Winter’s Sky
8. Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
9. Tell Me What You Want
10. Because It’s Not Love（But It’s Still A Feeling）
11. SEX
12. One Night Stand
13. ABC


14. I Love You
15. Really That Bad

★ 重現60年代風華 復古卻又嗆辣的現代女力
★ 登上In Style、Vogue時尚雜誌的潮流女聲
★ Timeout London四星高評價
歡迎來到這個充滿陽光的復古天堂。The Pipettes的三個小妮子－Rosay、Gwenno和RiotBecki不僅在視覺上重現了60年代色彩鮮豔、活潑可愛的女子團體造型，在音樂方面，更以清新的聲音帶你回溯The Shangri-La、The Shirelles…等經典團體及摩城之音叱吒風行的年代。但是，如果你以為The Pipettes只是一支一味複製古早氣息的團體，那就太小看她們了。The Pipettes雖然披覆著漂亮的復古流行歌曲糖衣，但其中所包含的內餡，卻是充滿現代女性獨立自主精神的嗆辣宣言。相較於當年那些打扮自己只為掙得心上人看她一眼的女性歌手，The Pipettes在她們的作品中則是強調現代女性要有感情的主導權，所以即使在一些從歌名看上去彷彿是男性佔上風的作品像是："One Night Stand"、"Sex"…等等歌曲中，真正主導大局的其實是女性，甚至在像"Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me"這首全英Top 35的歌曲裡，The Pipettes更是直接了當地叫緣分已盡的男生"滾出我的視線！" The Pipettes展現出的女力並非以張牙舞爪的嘶吼強迫聽者接受，相反地是以漂亮的合聲、清純的唱腔和甜美的曲式架構包裝起來，使得蘊含其中的張力更能在聽者毫無警戒的情況下爆發張揚開來，而在潛移默化中輕鬆地深入人心。

這張專輯是The Pipettes首度進軍歌壇的話題開創之作，所有歌曲都是由三位團員一手包辦，迥異於時下一般少女偶像團體交由唱片公司任其包裝、自己只要當個毫無主見的洋娃娃而已的商業作風。The Pipettes超齡的品味反映在她們從流行歌曲大師Phil Spector、龐克前驅The Ramones、摩城音樂、R&B、百老匯音樂、民謠甚至到三、四０年代的流行歌曲…等等，全都納為她們創作參考素材就可以看出。這三位才貌雙全的年輕歌手深諳復古就是創新的道理，藉由現今商業市場中少見的曲風與造型，The Pipettes顯得更為與眾不同，這樣的與眾不同讓她們更能引人注目，她們的單曲"Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me"以及"Pull Shapes"相繼打入全英單曲榜前四十名，證明了她們所展現出的另一種叛逆，一開始就已經獲得聽眾的認同。「We Are The Pipettes」既保留了三位少女的青春能量與少女情懷，也記錄了青少年的各種情緒與多樣化的想法，同時又自然流露出女性自覺的意識，未來看到這三位穿著圓點迷你裙、梳著阿哥哥頭、既年輕又有成熟韻味的漂亮美眉以流行歌曲掀起另類旋風，勢必不會是意外。