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  • Tender Trap 'Ten Songs About Girls' - Cargo Records UK

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    Tender Trap 'Ten Songs About Girls'

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    Tender Trap is lead by indie legend and feminist icon Amelia Fletcher (formerly of Talulah Gosh and Heavenly), the band now also includes Emily Bennett from Betty and the Werewolves, replacing Elizabeth Morris from Allo Darlin'.

    Emily brings another dimension to the band with her ebullient rock guitar playing, fantastic singing, and endless enthusiasm, joining existing members drummer and vocalist Katrina Dixon, John Stanley on guitar and original Heavenly bass player, Robert Pursey.

    Ten Songs About Girls is Amelia & Co's most complete-sounding effort yet, filled to the brim with resounding backing vocals and glorious fuzz.

    The album's artwork comes in green, purple and white ¬' the suffragette colours, sharing the original feminists' concern for aesthetics as well as politics. With three strong female voices on the record, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes calling and responding, sometimes singing alone, Tender Trap draw on the dynamics of the original girl group songs, but aim to show what happens when those girls aren't in thrall to the male Svengali.

    Tracklisting:
    1. King's Cross Station 
    2. MBV 
    3. Could This Be The Last Time? 
    4. Leaving Christmas Day 
    5. Step One 
    6. Memorabilia 
    7. Mayday 
    8. Ode 
    9. Broken Doll 
    10. Love Is Hard Enough 

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  • Tender Trap 'Dansette Dansette' - Cargo Records UK

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    Tender Trap are now a proper girl-group! In contrast with earlier Tender Trap, which had a more electronic bent, the newly revitalized 'Trap has stronger links to the pop lineage of its founder members; Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey were in influential indiepop originals and John Peel favorites Talulah Gosh and Heavenly, who released records on such indiepop labels as Sarah Records, K and Stephen Pastel's 53rd and 3rd.

    Neither Talulah Gosh nor Heavenly (Amelia's previous bands) had this much vocal harmony going on. With two extra girl voices (from new guitarist Elizabeth Morris of Allo Darlin' and new drummer Katrina Dixon) the band now combines the harmonies, oohs, ahs and sha-la-las of classic girl-pop with the stripped down beats and dirty guitars of the Shop Assistants and The Vaselines.Following their albums Film Molecules (2002) and 6 Billion People (2006), we're very excited to bring you Dansette Dansette, the band's excellent third album. Bristling with crunchy guitars and effortlessly catchy tunes, Dansette Dansette is ample proof of why Amelia and Rob's bands have been such a huge influence on today's generation of pop bands.

    Revered by today's revitalized indie-pop scene, their records are floor-fillers at indie dance clubs and their influence can be heard in bands such as Los Campesinos! (who namecheck Fletcher in their song "International Tweexcore Underground"), The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Dum Dum Girls. Even US rockers The Hold Steady reference Heavenly in the title track of their new album Heaven is Whenever."Dansette Dansette" kicks of the record in fine fashion, morse feedback bleeps leading into a melodic ode to the bedroom record player.

    Being the first single from the album, "Do You Want A Boyfriend?" is a perfect chunk of pop, but it's not as innocent as it seems - it celebrates the girl-pop phenomenon, but deconstructs it too. "Girls With Guns" and "2 To The N" are more punk-inspired, hearkening back to Amelia's Talulah Gosh roots. Slower tunes like "Suddenly" and "Counting The Hours" give plenty of room for Amelia's vocal interplay with Elizabeth and Katrina, and "Capital L" wraps up the album in epic fashion, a tambourine-driven slow-dance which builds to a glorious crescendo.

    1. Dansette Dansette 
    2. Fireworks 
    3. Do You Want A Boyfriend? 
    4. Suddenly 
    5. Girls With Guns 
    6. Danger Overboard 
    7. 2 To The N 
    8. Counting The Hours 
    9. Grand National 
    10. Capital L 

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  • Tender Trap '6 Billion People' - Cargo Records UK

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    For Fans Of: The Concretes, The Magnetic Fields, Le Tigre, C86 Indiepop.

    As lead singer of the seminal Talulah Gosh, the proto-riot grrrl Heavenly and the classy pop act Marine Research, Amelia Fletcher was the voice and face that launched a thousand fanzines, an iconic presence whose influence can be traced in bands as diverse as Le Tigre and Belle and Sebastian.

    Together with her cohort in the latter two of those bands, Rob Pursey (guitar), and Marine Research drummer John Stanley aka DJ Downfall (bass), Tender Trap formed in 2001, releasing one album to date, the coolly electronic 'Film Molecules'.

    With the addition of the crisp drumming of The Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson, '6 Billion People' marks a move away from the pared-down approach of its predecessor towards a sound recalling the best of the band's previous incarnations.



    Featuring members of Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research and The Magnetic Field.'In a nicer parallel universe, tender trap's Amelia Fletcher is the most influential artist of her day' NME

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  • Tender Trap 'Step One' - Cargo Records UK

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    Tender Trap 'Step One'Vinyl 7" - Red

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    Step One' is a fantastic call and response, rallying call of a song, laying out advice in a series of steps about how to become a successful girl band.

    With wise instructions, such as Find like-minded girls, Write a great chorus - never mind the verse, Eschew a manager and Buy a pink guitar¦ Tender Trap show an indiepop girl band how to take the world by storm.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Step One 
    2. Love Is Hard Enough (DJ Downfall Thermohaline Mix)

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  • Tender Trap 'Do You Want A Boyfriend?' - Cargo Records UK

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    Tender Trap 'Do You Want A Boyfriend?' Vinyl 7" -White

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    Tender Trap are now a proper girl-group! Neither Talulah Gosh nor Heavenly (Amelia Fletcher's previous bands) had this much vocal harmony going on.

    With two extra voices from new guitarist Elizabeth Morris (also of Allo Darlin’) and new drummer Katrina Dixon, this great new single combines the harmonies, oohs, ahhs and sha-la-las of classic girl-pop with the stripped-down beats and dirty guitars of the Shop Assistants and The Vaselines.In contrast with earlier Tender Trap, which had a more electronic bent, the current line-up has stronger links to the pop lineage of its founding members; Fletcher and Rob Pursey were in influential indie-pop originals and John Peel favorites Talulah Gosh and Heavenly, who released records on Sarah Records, K Records and Stephen Pastel's 53rd and 3rd.

    Revered by today's revitalized indie-pop scene, their records are floor-fillers at indie dance clubs and their influence can be heard in bands such as Los Campesinos! (who namecheck Fletcher in their song "International Tweexcore Underground") and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart."Do You Want a Boyfriend?," taken from the Tender Trap's upcoming album Dansette Dansette, is a perfect chunk of pop, but it's not as innocent as it seems - it celebrates the girl-pop phenomenon, but deconstructs it, too. Fletcher sings in response to Dixon and Darling's increasingly intimate questions about boyfriends, and her answers stray well outside the standard girl-group territory.

    The punk-rocking flip side "The Sum and the Difference" is the closest Tender Trap have come to Talulah Gosh; while guitars and drums rush by in a blur, Fletcher and Morris harmonize sweetly, contemplating whether to kiss or kill another unreliable partner.

    1. Do You Want A Boyfriend? 
    2. The Sum And The Difference

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  • Tender Trap 'Oh Katrina' Vinyl 7

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    Tender Trap 'Oh Katrina' Vinyl 7"

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    Tender Trap 'Oh Katrina' Vinyl 7"

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    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Oh Katrina

    Side B:
    2. Badge Of Love
    3. Dyspraxic
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