Bodyparts is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music band Dragonette, self-released on September 22, 2012 by Dragonette, Inc.. The album was nominated for Dance Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2013.[2]
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Recording sessions took place in London, England; Kinmount, Canada; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[3] Lead singer Martina Sorbara listened to a Phoebe Snow album the entire period the band was making the album. She stated, “I find that when we’re writing I think I’m more inspired by hearing something that’s really different from our sound and then thinking about how that would work in conjunction with what we do. Like hearing an old 70s smooth music track and thinking, ‘what would happen if we tried incorporating this into an electropop track?’ But really there’s not a clear line to what we do.”[4]
The band decided to name the album Bodyparts because it often mentions body parts in the lyrics.[5] Dragonette announced the title on June 21, 2012.[6] Sorbara remarked that she saw the word as “something musical, beautiful and sexual.”[5]
The band released the album’s artwork on July 25.[7] In mid-2012, the band launched a contest inviting fans to submit their own versions of the song “Untouchable”, using Dragonette’s original lyrics alone. The winning track was announced on September 7, and will be used as a B-side to a future Dragonette single.[6][8]
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