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Review: Lorde's spare musings on the burden of fame don't sound like hits. That'll suit ...

Hastings Tribune 19 Aug 2021

(Your Googling awaits.) ... These are weird, spare, twisty-turny psych-folk tunes, many of them without the propulsive beats that used to drive Lorde's music; most of the time, she's simply layering her fluttering, slightly raspy vocals over Antonoff's noodly electric guitar in a way that recalls Nico's 1967 cult classic "Chelsea Girl," of all things ... .

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Review: Lorde’s spare musings on the burden of fame don’t sound like hits. That’ll suit her ...

The Los Angeles Times 19 Aug 2021

× ... Advertisement ... These are weird, spare, twisty-turny psych-folk tunes, many of them without the propulsive beats that used to drive Lorde’s music; most of the time, she’s simply layering her fluttering, slightly raspy vocals over Antonoff’s noodly electric guitar in a way that recalls Nico’s 1967 cult classic “Chelsea Girl,” of all things.

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Groovy, man: why the record shop is coming back to life

The Times/The Sunday Times 07 Aug 2021

... by walking into the HMV on Oxford Street in London, looking for a new copy of Nico’s Chelsea Girl on vinyl and finding it there for £5.99.

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You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike review – the biography of Nico

The Observer 11 Jul 2021

While Nico was never commercially successful – albums such as Chelsea Girl and the harmonium-smothered The Marble Index were too outre for popular tastes – her influence as an artist remains significant (Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Patti Smith and Björk have all expressed their admiration).

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York News-Times 22 Feb 2021

Considered an influential cross-over of country and rock, Bob Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline” features the memorable tunes “Girl from the North County” and “Lay Lady Lay.” Most of the album was recorded in just four days ... 'Chelsea Girl' by Nico ... “Chelsea Girl” was the solo debut by German-born singer Nico after she left the Velvet Underground.

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#70. 'Chelsea Girl' by Nico

Napa Valley Register 19 Feb 2021

Germany“Chelsea Girl” was the solo debut by ...

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We’ve Got A File On You: Suzanne Vega

Stereogum 10 Sep 2020

And the first thing he did was, he said he wanted to make an album like Nico’s Chelsea Girl, and I couldn’t believe it because Chelsea Girl was all of these strings and flutes and harmoniums, and I thought, “No way.” I just fought that so hard.

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Dead for three decades, Andy Warhol is still enjoying his 15 minutes of fame

The Keene Sentinel 25 Apr 2020

Now he made “Poor Little Rich Girl” with Edie Sedgwick, his first “superstar.” Others followed. Brigid Berlin, Paul America and Viva, among others, appearing in films like “My Hustler,” “The Nude Restaurant” and the cult classic “The Chelsea Girls .”. Warhol managed the Velvet Underground, pairing the group with Nico to make a landmark rock album ... .

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"Beauty was a curse for Nico": Maxine Peake on playing the iconic avant garde singer ...

NME 19 Jul 2019

It also stands in stark contrast to the work on her previous solo album, ‘Chelsea Girl’, a work Nico loathed because she frequently had to relinquish artistic control to her male counterparts – or it would be viewed only through her relationships with other male artists such as Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Jim Morrison and Lou Reed.

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Maxine Peake: 'The truth seems slippery with Nico'

The Observer 14 Jun 2019

It’s not totally clear when or where Nico was born ... “Everything is so surprising with Nico, she’s so complex and contradictory.” ... In 1967 she released her debut solo album, Chelsea Girl ... The Nico Project, which is described as a theatrical immersion into her sound, centres on the follow-up to Chelsea Girl – The Marble Index, which Nico wrote herself.

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Watch Nico cover a Gordon Lightfoot tune in 1965

Boing Boing 31 May 2019

In 1965, two years before Nico made the Warhol/Factory scene with the Velvet Underground and released her first solo LP "Chelsea Girl," she recorded this cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "I'm Not Sayin'." ... Nico's version was produced by Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and the promo film was shot at West India Docks in London." ... .