

Tender Trap
With Amelia Fletcher's bands, personnel changes always require brand new names: Heavenly was basically just Talulah Gosh with a new keyboard player, and when DJ Downfall replaced the late Mathew Fletcher on drums, the group took the new handle Marine Research. Similarly, Tender Trap is simply Marine Research after attrition: guitarist Peter Momtchiloff needed to attend to his day job as the philosophy editor at Oxford University Press; while keyboardist Cathy Rogers was off in America, hosting the popular cable television show {#Junkyard Wars}, which...[more]
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Following on the demise of Marine Research, Amelia Fletcher has risen again in the guise of Tender Trap. Accompanied by her Marine Research band-mates Rob Pursey and DJ Downfall, Amelia has coalesced her voice and impeccable taste into a fourth experiment in unforgettable, streamlined pop music (previously she fronted Talulah Gosh and Heavenly).
7" $4.40
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Amelia Fletcher has been a vibrant center of the K universe for over 10 years now, with her many experiments in crashpop propulsion: first the punkific Talulah Gosh, which melded into Heavenly, and then the graceful Marine Research. She reemerges after a three-year hiatus with the stripped to the bone pop-perfect, Tender Trap. Collaborating with Rob Pursey (Heavenly, Marine Research) and former Marine Research drummer DJ on the sequences and keyboards, this latest amalgamation takes flight with resounding r [ read more ]
CD $12.99
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