Pitchfork

The lineup of the British twee pop girl-group the Pipettes has gone through more changes than circa-2000 Destiny's Child. Now, that new revolving door has let in a new member. Her name is Beth Mburu-Bowie, and she's totally cute! Of course she is-- she's a Pipette!

The story so far: Last year, OG Pipettes Rose Elinor "Rosay" Dougall and Rebecca "RiotBecki" Stephens left the group, with only Gwenno Saunders remaining. (Dougall has since struck out on her own.) Their replacements were Saunders' sister Ani and the pop songwriter Anna McDonald. But then McDonald also left the group about six months later. Yesterday, the band announced her replacement in a video blog on their website. (Warning: Whole lot of mugging going on in that video.)

According to the video, the Pipettes are working in the studio right now, and they plan on doing more of these video blogs. As previously reported, producer Martin Rushent, who has worked with the Human League, is producing their new record.

The reconstituted trio has a show coming up on March 20 at the London nightclub Matter's Wonky Pop night.