New Music Tuesday: The Pipettes

[cryptonaut]

Is it cheating to declare something I only just heard in the first week of 2008 to be one of my favorite albums of 2007? Maybe it is, but I don't care. We Are The Pipettes, the UK trio's full-length debut, is, in my opinion, worth a bit of retconing. The Pipettes (Riotbecki, Gwenno, and Rosay) are a retro delight--60s girl-group pop with a punk attitude. Matching outfits and synchronized dance moves...what's not to like? (It also doesn't hurt that all three are really, really cute.)

To see what I mean, take a gander at the video for "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me"

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Other stand-out tracks: We are the Pipettes (so freakin' catchy!), Pull Shapes, Dirty Mind, ABC

Web: www.thepipettes.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/thepipettes



In no particular order (and most likely incomplete), my list of the rest of the best of 2007:

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - of Montreal
Super Taranta! - Gogol Bordello
Night of the Furies - The Rosebuds
Hymns For a Dark Horse - Bowerbirds
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
All Things, Forests - Palomar
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Writer's Block - Peter, Bjorn & John
From the Bureau of Robotic Affairs - Eyes To Space
Crawl Inside Your Head - SNMNMNM
The Else - They Might Be Giants
All In a Day's Work - Beatnik Turtle
Grinderman - Grinderman
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
Icky Thump - The White Stripes
The Dethalbum - Dethklok
The Distant Future - Flight of the Conchords