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Maybe you haven't noticed, but Pitchfork has been acting kinda funny lately. We're all distracted and stuff, unable to concentrate on most day-to-day tasks. It's getting harder to hold a conversation with us, what with all the staring out the window and giggling at nothing in particular.

Sorry about that. It's just that we've fallen in love. With the Pipettes, three adorable British lasses in polka-dot dresses singing about kissing and dancing and other, slightly more naughty, activities. They're the best thing to come out of the current girl group revival, and we can't stop raving about them.

At last, Gwenno, Rose, and Becki are returning our affections, sort of. On July 17, Memphis Industries will release the group's debut album, We Are the Pipettes, in the UK. It's due out August 14 in Germany, France, and Scandinavia; alas, no American release is planned just yet. The LP contains such gems as "Dirty Mind", "Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me", and my favorite song of the year so far, "Pull Shapes".

Tracklist:

01 We Are the Pipettes
02 Pull Shapes
03 Why Did You Stay?
04 Dirty Mind
05 It Hurts to See You Dance So Well
06 Judy
07 A Winter's Sky
08 Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
09 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

We Are the Pipettes will be preceded by the "Pull Shapes" single, due out July 3 on Memphis Industries. It will be released as two different 7"s and on CD.

Tracklists:

7" (orange vinyl):

A: Pull Shapes
B: Guess Who Ran Off With the Milkman?

7" (yellow vinyl):

A: Pull Shapes
B: Magician Man

CD:

01 Pull Shapes
02 Really That Bad

The Pipettes will charm Europe and the UK on tour this summer, hitting up quite a few festivals. Unfortunately, North America is once again being spurned. Oh Pipettes, how can we make you love us back?

Dates:

05-10 Paris, France - Trabendo *
05-19 Brighton, England - Great Escape Festival
05-29 Nottingham, England - Rock City (Dot 2 Dot Festival)
06-07 London, England - The Barfly
07-01 Barcelona, Spain - Faraday Festival
07-03 London, England - Cargo
07-04 Southampton, England - Joiners
07-05 Bournemouth, England - Opera House
07-06 Leicester, England - The Charlotte
07-07 Stoke on Trent, England - The Underground
07-08 Cotswold, England - Stanway House
07-10 Manchester, England - Late Rooms
07-12 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
07-13 Aberdeen, Scotland - Tunnels
07-22 Paris, France - Sous La Plague at Park of Paris
07-29 London, England - Clapham Common (Ben and Jerry's Festival)
08-05 Manchester, England - Depercussion Festival
08-18 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08-26 Cardiff, Wales - Get Loaded in the Park
08-27 London, England - Get Loaded in the Park

* with the Go! Team

The We Are the Pipettes track "Because It's Not Love" is currently available for free download from eMusic, as part of the free Memphis Industries compilation It Came From Memphis. Click HERE to get the comp, which also features Field Music, the Black Neon, Absentee, Blue States, the Squire of Somerton, Fort Lauderdale, J Xaverre, and La Mouche. It Came From Memphis Too is due in June.