If you're one of the people I saw in the "best of 2006" forum who listed the pipettes on their top ten list...perhaps you should reconsider.

The Long Blondes are making music in a similar vein to The Pipettes...the only difference is they're doing it with ten times more substance and finesse. Check them out here:
Performing "Giddy Stratospheres" live
Appropriation (By Any Other Name) video
The Long Blonde's myspace page

This is definitely my favorite group to emerge in '06...catchy pop music refreshingly devoid of ridiculous polka-dotted outfits and sampling of Maxine Nightingale songs. I haven't been this excited about a few singles and a debut album in quite awhile.

Have to include myself as looking forward to the Long Blondes full length album, Someone To Drive You Home which should arrive in the mail next week. Really enjoyed the two LB EPs I've managed to find as well as a bootleg of demos on ebay. Yeah, "Giddy Stratospheres" is a fantastic song, I've loved it since first hearing it on a Word Magazine comp last year.

Since they're also mentioned, I do enjoy the Pipettes as well. Maxine Nightingale is a great source to be sampled!

their debut is really great.best new band in britain?

I can't stop listening to the album.... It's Be Your Own Pet with intelligent lyrics, sonic youth with a british twist, and so many other good bands with a different edge. It's just really good music.

Looks... sounds... pretty Yeah Yeah Yeahs-ish to me.

For some reason I don't like making the YYY's comparison. I can see it, but it just feels wrong.

^agree.i cant understand the comparison with tht YYY.
The only thing sthat they have in common are the girly vocals & the great songs n attitude

I can't quite get the Pipettes comparison. The Pipettes are quite obviously a callback to Motown girl groups. It's a blatant PR move, but I still find the songs enjoyable in their own poppy way. Both The Long Blondes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have disinterested-sounding female vocals and, it seems, forgettable songs. I've never been able to get into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I forsee the same thing happening with the Long Blondes.

I thought Fever to Tell was really good, but show your bones... not so much. Idk, it seems to me that they took the album in a bad direction.

I hope the next long blondes album is just as good (if there is another, I hope so...)

I love this record -

Have any of you checked out Love is All - Nine Times that Same Song? a great Swedish band - in the same vein as the Long Blondes.

I recently listened to the entire album online and I must say I was very impressed. "Giddy Stratospheres," is a very catchy tune. And I love the lyrics to "Once and Never Again."
I too, am waiting for my imported copy to arrive in the mail. There's no release date set in the US as far as I know.
And yes, Love is All is also a great band. Nine Times That Same Song was one of my favorite albums of 2006. But I think the two bands have a pretty different sound -- Twee as fuck vs. Post punk/new new wave.