Bodyparts (album)
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| Studio album by Dragonette | ||||
| Released | September 22, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | Malvern Airlines (London, England) Burnt River Cabin (Kinmount, Canada) Urca72 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
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| Length | 41:27 | |||
| Label | Universal Music Canada | |||
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Bodyparts is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music band Dragonette, released on September 22, 2012 by Universal Music Canada. The album was nominated for Dance Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2013.
Recording sessions took place in London, England; Kinmount, Canada; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lead singer Martina Sorbara listened to a Phoebe Snow album the entire period the band was making the album. She stated, "I find that when we're writing I think I'm more inspired by hearing something that's really different from our sound and then thinking about how that would work in conjunction with what we do. Like hearing an old 70s smooth music track and thinking, 'what would happen if we tried incorporating this into an electropop track?' But really there's not a clear line to what we do."
The band decided to name the album Bodyparts because it often mentions body parts in the lyrics. Dragonette announced the title on June 21, 2012. Sorbara remarked that she saw the word as "something musical, beautiful and sexual."
The band released the album's artwork on July 25. In mid-2012, the band launched a contest inviting fans to submit their own versions of the song "Untouchable", using Dragonette's original lyrics alone. The winning track was announced on September 7, and will be used as a B-side to a future Dragonette single.
Two tracks from the album, "Right Woman" and "Rocket Ship", were uploaded to Dragonette's SoundCloud page on March 5 and June 19, 2012, respectively. The band posted the official sampler for Bodyparts online on September 4, 2012. On September 11, the album was officially streamed in full on The Hype Machine.
"Let It Go" was released as the album's lead single on April 2, 2012. It reached number twenty-three on the Canadian Hot 100, becoming the band's highest-peaking solo single on the chart to date. The album's second single, "Live in This City", was released on August 7, 2012, charting at number sixty-five in Canada. "My Legs" was released on May 20, 2013 as the third and final single from the album.
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