Pitchfork

Monster Bobby-- the songwriter behind the polka-dotted pop machine known as the Pipettes, and the author of a forthcoming book about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop titled Hauntologies-- will release his previously reported debut full-length July 16 in the UK via Hypnote (July 17 in the U.S.).

The album's title, Gaps, is a play on the fact that it features "the almost complete absence of any gaps between tracks, each one segued into the next with the aid of field recordings and other assorted noises and soundscapes," according to a press release. In addition to those noises and soundscapes, Gaps features bassoon, glockenspiel, tuba, and cornet in the Monster mash.

Monster Bobby apparently has a sense of humor: Gaps' tracks include "Let's Check Into a Hospital Together" and "The Closest Experience to That of Being With You Is the Experience of Taking Drugs". Ryan Morey, who mastered an album called Funeral by some band with an awful name (Video Game Flame or something?), is mastering Gaps as well.

Gaps:

01 Fresh Start
02 The Closest Experience to That of Being With You Is the Experience of Taking Drugs
03 The Postcard
04 Blah Blah Blah (Give Up)
05 Last Stop, All Change
06 3 Days, 14 Hours
07 Leave Quietly
08 Believed You at the Time
09 I Live for Yr Fleeting Touch
10 I Heard You Moved Away
11 Scopophilia
12 Let's Check Into a Hospital Together
13 Once More to Lay Down Beside You
14 Beyond the Reach of Arms
15 You Going Out
16 Bedtime Baby
17 A Bureaucracy of Angels