As Gwenno is working on new material, she's put a bunch of old demos up on Soundcloud for free download! Highly recommended. I've long been a fan. The first time I saw The Pipettes was at the Track & Field All-Dayer at the Camden Barfly May 1, 2005, one of Gwenno's first shows with the band. I was so blown away with what they were doing I turned to Harvey Williams, who had hipped me to them, and said "This is everything music should be!", buying the 7" although I did not have a record player in London, and proceeding to see them 4 times in the next 9 days. Then in 2008 I heard some of Gwenno's solo songs on Myspace and was so impressed that I made the journey to Brighton for her first solo gig at the Moksha Cafe, where she and Stuart Flynn did a great cover of Don't Go Breaking My Heart.
Lime Chordial has always been my favourite. A perfect dreamy pop song. "Drizzly days, and smoking out your window, sand in our sandwiches and hanging out at busstops, old black and white films and hiding in wardrobes, and hoping to find that other world." Those lines capture so much of the reality in which music allows youthful dreams to soar, transcending the everyday and opening up bright possibilities. Gorgeous wistful melody and music. Absolutely lovely.
U & I was another early favourite.
Tonight is an enchanting twilight sigh.
The achingly beautiful Before Sunset.
Picture Of You is a great little pop song, a cross between The Ronettes' Walking In The Rain and Depeche Mode's A Photograph Of You.
Go on, grab them all!
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