What I Listened to on My Summer Vacation: The Pipettes

So Lolla was phenomenal… for those curious on the details, hit up the ol’ LJ, where I’m chronicling it in painstaking detail.

Today, I’m getting back into gear by writing up some of the great music I picked up over the long summer in which I wrote pretty much nothing—a sort of catch up, if you will.

Now, I’ve written about The Pipettes in here before back when they were a quirky little underground act from England with a handful of singles, but now they’re a quirky little underground act from England with an album… and what an album it is, full of gorgeous retro-style harmonies and danceable rhythms and lyrics that stick in your head for days— which, by the way, is terribly inconvenient and more than a little embarrassing when said lyrics are “dance with me pretty boy tonight”.

In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit its not just the music I love here—the Pipettes have refined an image that makes them pretty much the dream girls of every indie geek on the planet, despite the lyrics clearly showing that these girls have no interest in settling down in a relationship, my favorite example being the stunning “It’s Not Love (But It’s Still a Feeling)”

Nonetheless, I’m completely smitten at this point, and I think you will be too.

The Pipettes—It’s Not Love (But It’s Still a Feeling)

VIDEO: The Pipettes—Pull Shapes