''My Suitor'' is an 8-track EP or mini-album of covers from Japanese pop star

Kahimi Karie , better known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer, songwriter and photographer. Her music is closely associated with the Shibuya-kei aesthetic. Karie sings in English, French and Japanese, among other languages. Karie began her music caree ...

. The original songs were largely recorded by little-known UK artists in the 1980s including Dolly Mixture and

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. It was released in

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in 2002 by the

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label. The disc was packaged with a bonus track, "Warrior in Wordsworth" and the music video for "Melt the Snow".

Track listing

(Track 8 is a "hidden" or bonus track on the original pressing only) # "My Suitor" (

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) – # "Dilly Dally Dolly" (Dolly Mixture) – # "Melt the Snow" (

Virginia Astley Virginia Astley (born 26 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter most active during the 1980s and 1990s. Her songwriting career started in 1980. Her classical training influenced her as did a desire to be experimental with her music. Alt ...

)– # "Drumbeat for Baby" ( Weekend) – # "Black Velvet" (The Lilac Time) – # "Since You've Been Away" ( The French Impressionists) – # "The Photo Song" (

Holger Czukay Holger Schüring (24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017), known professionally as Holger Czukay (), was a German musician best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridg ngthe gap between pop and the avant-g ...

) – # "Warrior in Wordsworth" ( X-Ray Spex) –

References

{{Authority control Kahimi Karie albums 2002 EPs Polydor Records EPs Covers EPs