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Chromeo detail album through personal ad
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 18 February 2014
While Little Dragon are calling fans to tell them about their new album, Chromeo have revealed details about their new LP via a ‘missed connections’ personal ad on Craigslist.
The advert announced that the album, entitled ‘White Women’, will be released on 12 May, and also displays its cover artwork. For the text of the ad, they’ve provided a verse’s worth of lyrics, while the location of the supposed failed hook up is (as Fader notes) the First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, where Prince filmed ‘Purple Rain’.
Anyone looking at the ad is invited to reply. So we did, and… nothing happened. Oh well, here’s the video for ‘Come Alive’, which features Toro Y Moi:
