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Amanda Applewood
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Description: | 7" on Too Young To Die |
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| Format: | 7" (vinyl) | |
| Genre(s): | Singer-Songwriter | |
| Label: | Too Young To Die | |
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£4.09
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
TRACKLISTING:
1. Pretend (We’re In Love)
2. I Love Boys
OVERVIEW:
'Pretend (We're In Love)' is the debut single from indie pop sensation Amanda Applewood. At the moment she is possibly better known for playing keyboards and the recorder with The Boy Least Likely To, and for throwing cakes into the crowd from a customised lacrosse stick and eating breakfast cereals on stage, but all that is about to change.
While The Boy Least Likely To were taking forever to record their second album, she was busily writing her own songs, and in the summer she went into the studio with seminal producer Bobby Charm to record some of her favourite ones. Using flutes, recorders and synths, she brought together the sounds of Seventies TV themes with the Eighties girl pop sound of Strawberry Switchblade, Voice of the Beehive and The Waitresses to make an eccentric, literate and charming indie pop record.
Filled with romance and nostalgia, her quintessentially English songs are quirky and sweetly naive, filled with dreamy optimism and bittersweet realism. They bring to mind long summer holidays spent on wet beaches, where rock pools are filled with dark secrets and places like Kent can be just as romantic and exciting as Nashville and New York City. Carving your initials into a school desk with a compass, walking home in the rain, overgrown footpaths and unrequited love. It is as if the songs were written in the last summer holidays after you leave school. At the moment when you suddenly realise for the first time that you have your whole life ahead of you, and you don't know what to do with it.
She grew up in a small village in Oxfordshire, and spent her formative years reading Nancy Mitford and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, listening to The Sundays and daydreaming about Anthony Andrews in Brideshead Revisited. She lists her influences as Enid Blyton, Kirsty MacColl, Penelope Keith, DH Lawrence, Ronnie Barker, Patricia Leitch, Diana Pullein Thompson, Leslie Caron, The Smiths and Evelyn Waugh. The single comes out as a limited edition 7" on Too Young To Die Records in March. It comes backed with 'I Love Boys'. An album will follow later in the year.
