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Tender Trap

Tender Trap

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  • Years Active: 2000s

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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 she also created and executive produces. This left Amelia Fletcher on vocals and melodica, Rob Pursey on guitar and DJ Downfall on bass. (Downfall also creates the largely electronic drum patterns that Pursey and Fletcher's songs are based on; on-stage, the trio play along to a CD-R of these drum tracks playing in a boombox on top of Downfall's bass amp.) The trio's first release was the three-song single Oh Katrina in May 2002, followed in July by the debut album Film Molecules.
— Stewart Mason , All Music Guide

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Marine Research, Heavenly, Talulah Gosh

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