Someone to Drive You Home

Someone to Drive You Home

Infobox Album | Name = Someone To Drive you Home
Type = Album
Artist = The Long Blondes


Released = flagicon|UK November 6, 2006
flagicon|US June 5, 2007
Recorded = July 2006, Konk Studios, London
Genre = Indie rock
Length = US release: 62:42
Producer = Erol Alkan, Steve Mackey
Label = Rough Trade Records
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wsua6job71u0 Link]
*Drowned in Sound (8/10) [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/8664 Link]
*"The Guardian" Rating|4|5 [http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/reviews/story/0,,1937815,00.html Link]
*LAUNCHcast (9/10) [http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/061106/33/20up7.html Link]
*"Mojo" Rating|4|5 [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/longblondes/someonetodriveyouhome Link]
*"NME" (9/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-long-blondes/8069 Link]
*"The Observer" Rating|4|5 [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/10bestcds/story/0,,1910647,00.html Link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/40414/The_Long_Blondes_Someone_to_Drive_You_Home Link]
*"Stranger" (Positive) [http://www.stranger-mag.com/reviews/music/the-long-blondes.html Link]
*"Stylus" (B+) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-long-blondes/someone-to-drive-you-home.htm Link]
*This Is Fake DIY Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/3336.html Link]
*"Uncut" Rating|3|5 [http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/long_blondes/reviews/8990 Link]
Last album =
This album = "Someone to Drive You Home"
(2006)
Next album = ""Couples""
(2008)
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"Someone To Drive You Home" is the debut album by The Long Blondes. It was released on November 6, 2006. It received widespread critical praise and was placed 7th in the "NME"'s best 50 albums of 2006 list [http://www.nme.com/reviews/albums/oftheyear] and features in many other best of lists for 2006.

The predominant theme of the album is relationships from a female perspective, although 10 of the tracks on the album were written by male guitarist Dorian Cox. Themes dealt with include competition between females, isolation, sexual exploration and deceit. Influences of Pulp, Elastica, Morrissey and Blondie have been frequently quoted when the album is discussed in the media [ [http://www.planbmag.com/content/view/430/42/ The Long Blondes Interview - Plan B Magazine ] ] .

The title of the album comes from a line in the song "You Could Have Both".

The albums artwork is a painting by lead singer Kate Jackson; it is an image of Faye Dunaway in the film "Bonnie and Clyde", with a Mark 1 Ford Cortina as her getaway car. [cite web
last = Wiseman
first = Eva
title = Eva Wiseman meets the Long Blondes
publisher = Guardian
date = 2006-11-11
url = http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1945100,00.html
accessdate = 2007-12-09 ] The artwork inside the album sleeve is a painting of Nicolas Cage & Laura Dern in the film Wild At Heart. [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-long-blondes--theyre-so-modern-798615.html]

Track listing

#"Lust in the Movies" – 3:05
#"Once And Never Again" – 2:56
#"Only Lovers Left Alive" – 3:59
#"Giddy Stratospheres" – 5:08
#"In the Company of Women" – 2:39
#"Heaven Help the New Girl" – 3:54
#"Separated by Motorways" – 2:19
#"You Could Have Both" – 4:47
#"Swallow Tattoo" – 2:31
#"Weekend Without Makeup" – 4:11
#"Madame Ray" – 3:30
#"A Knife for the Girls" – 5:08

US bonus disc

#"Fulwood Babylon" – 4:05
#"Five Ways to End It" – 6:06
#"Never to Be Repeated" – 3:43
#"All Bar One Girls" – 4:09

Personnel

The Long Blondes

* Emma Chaplin: guitars, keyboards, vocals
* Dorian Cox: guitars, keyboards, vocals, lyrics except on tracks 7 and 11
* Reenie Hollis: bass guitar, vocals
* Kate Jackson: lead vocals, lyrics on tracks 7 and 11, artwork
* Screech Louder: drums

Other

* Produced and mixed by: Steve Mackey and Richard Flack
* Assistant engineers: Ben Mason, Serge Krebs
* Mastered by: Guy Davie at the Exchange
* Logo by: Matt Bolton
* Layout by: Jeff Teader

External links

*MusicBrainz artist|id=3efd863f-6a5c-400a-9868-6ef533d51509|name=The Long Blondes
*MusicBrainz release|id=1651fa13-ae78-4879-86e5-760e20268adc|name=Someone to Drive You Home
* [http://chat.ukevents.net/viewtopic.php?t=8921 Someone to Drive You Home Album Review at] UKEvents.net

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