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The Pipettes - "Pull Shapes" [mp3]
"Pull Shapes" [Amazon] |
| Following up their unstoppable, Spector-stacked single "Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me", Brit bomb squad Gwenno (blonde), Rose (brunette), Becki (glasses), and their shadowy back-up band once again achieve girl group ga-ga. It's still "I Love the 60s" doo-wop and all that, but now they're bolstered by an ABBA-style string arrangement that swirls like good-witch pixie dust. Stomping out any nagging nostalgia critiques, they hook with hooks, verses, bridges and clap-along breakdowns while tweaking their favorite genre's dominant dependent tendencies; here, the "pretty" boys follow lead.
Source: Pitchfork. |
