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I rose like the phoenix

11:50 / 25.03.04

Black Cherry anyone... I'm loving Alison Goldfrapp's voice

Jub

12:18 / 25.03.04

I just listened to the Black Cherry Album for the first time this morning on the walk into work and I was impressed. She does indeed have a lovely voice. The sound of the band (that airy sort of funk) really reminded me of someone but I couldn't quite put me finger on it.

D Terminator XXXIII

12:23 / 25.03.04

I desperately fell for Strict Machine when it was doing the air waves this last December, courtesy of the Armani ad. At first I thought it was a cover of some 70's glam track, sexed up slightly, but an old one nonetheless because it has that quality of resembling something that one has heard before.

Is the rest of it as depraved & lovely?

Ganesh

13:04 / 25.03.04

Just bought it, having danced to several of the tracks at Duckie, on Saturday. Early days, but moderately delightful so far.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

13:23 / 25.03.04

Apart from the singles I was unmoved when I listened to it a few months ago. Can't say why particularly as there was nothing I could point to and go 'this is a crime against music!', I suppose it's just that she's managed to sound like a slightly more polished version of every other electronica-fronted-by-a-female-singer group from the last decade or so.

Miss Lucifer

15:26 / 25.03.04

It’s a great album and a marked improvement on Felt Mountain. Don’t get me wrong Felt Mountain was good at the time, but give me the burlesque pseudo BDSM grooves of Black Cherry any day.
All four singles from it have been top top tunes and the video for Twist is fab.

If you like her voice, I’d recommend checking out some of the vocals Alison did for Orbital too.

Tryphena Absent

15:58 / 25.03.04

I really love this album, I can't hear it's title without her voice singing in my mind and I much prefer her now when compared to her work with Orbital.

Brigade du jour

21:50 / 25.03.04

My mate brought one of these clever DVD single things round my house the other night and we watched the Strict Machine video. Kept thinking of that Donna Summer record that I can't remember the title of. You know, the one that sounds like Strict Machine.

Very nice music. I could sit under a big tree with a lady friend and a nice bottle of wine and just chill. Man.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:34 / 26.03.04

The record that 'Strict Machine' pays a lot of homage to is called 'I Feel Love'.

I absolutely love Goldfrapp's Add N 2 (pervert) seX, liquid metal robot cabaret, fuzzy electro funk stuff - 'Crystalline Green', 'Train', 'Tiptoe', 'Strict Machine', 'Slippage' and especially 'Twist' - they're not the only people doing that right now (or previously), but they are one of the best.

I can take or leave the floaty ethereal ambient chill out coffee table trip hop stuff, to be honest, which means most of the first album (although I do still love 'Utopia') and still just under half of Black Cherry. Don't get me wrong, the latter is well worth owning, but I'd love to hear a whole album of the ones you can dance to...

Horatio Hellpop

23:39 / 10.12.04

i can't quite figure out what's going on in the lyrics of utopia with the whole "fascist baby" refrain. it seems out of sync with the whole rest of the song which seems most easily read as referring to the consequences of a fascist state. but there's something about her saying "fascist" that i find jarring... is it bad writing or is there a way that it's lyrically successfully?

Bear

00:30 / 11.12.04

Oooh I like Goldfrapp now, I downloaded a mix they did of their favourite tracks (or favourite for the show at least) and I've picked up a few of their album tracks.

Someone give the me the albums.

OR I'LL EAT YOUR SOUL

doglikesparky

11:00 / 11.12.04

Bearo, I find it very unnerving that you refer to yourself as "the me" just before threatening to eat souls...

Anyway, I really like Goldfrapp but prefer the more chilled stuff they do so I'm worried a little bit that as they evolve I'm going to like them less and less. Which I don't want 'cos they're cool and Alison G has the most amazing voice.

Bear

11:57 / 11.12.04

Don't mess with The Me.

Ahem, I downloaded a live gig they did in Holland and it's very good I just can't find the albums online so I guess I'll have to buy one of them. First one is the better one, is that right?

Jack Fear

12:20 / 11.12.04

Horatio: I think the "fascist baby" bit is meant to be jarring, frankly—rubbing your nose in the seductive allure of absolutist ideologies. It's a political song dressed up as a come-on.

And I'll admit that sometimes while reading Barbelith, I croon the chorus, with the words

Nazi snobtro-o-oll
Ontopica
Ontopica

That may just be me, though.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:55 / 22.07.05

New album Supernature out soon. New single 'Ooh La La' out even sooner. Takes the hints of T-Rex that were present on 'Train' to their logical conclusion (and the video, even more so - hilarious and ubercool at the same time).

It gives me what the young people no longer call "the horn".

VonKobra,Scuttling&Slithering

15:35 / 22.07.05

She is so...

*gasp*

...that stuff just oozes and creeps into my head, giving my Soul the order to FIIYAAAHHH

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:57 / 11.08.05

Apparently 'Ooh La La' is doing very well in the mid-week sales. It may break the top 5.

At the same time, I have seen signs of a bit of a Goldfrapp backlash in a few places. These two facts may not be unconnected.

uncle retrospective

20:38 / 11.08.05

Well, fuck the haters, I'm going to see them in 3 weeks and I can't wait.

haus of fraser

16:24 / 06.09.05

so its been out a coupla weeks whats peoples thoughts on supernature?

I quite like it, although it strikes me as a singles album- in that there are about 3 fucking ace tracks and a lot of ok tracks obviously Ooh La La was great- my personal favourite- and surely the next single is Satin Chic- primarily because it moves the goldfrapp sound on a bit- imagine Kate Bush fronting The Scisser sisters in a piano boogie get up and groove kinda way.

'Let it take you' & 'Time out From The world are a step back to 'felt mountain' or 'hairy trees' off Black Cherry- ok if you like that kind of thing but not as good as the upbeat numbers.

I guess that its a good album- sadly not as ground breaking as Black Cherry seemed at the time but good all the same. Did anyone go to TDK festival and see them? were they good?

Benny the Ball

14:49 / 18.09.05

Ooh La La is just fantastic. I'm still getting my ears around the rest of the album, but that track alone is about what makes Goldfrapp so great.

Benny the Ball

15:27 / 18.09.05

I just watched a stream of the Ooh La La video - I kind of thought I did anyway, but I now have the biggest crush on Alison Goldfrapp. I haven't had a crush since Twin Peaks was on tele.

thirty/thirty

06:44 / 22.09.05

Snarky employees at Madonna's place of work refer to her as Oldfrapp behind her back. Isn't that delightful?

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:52 / 23.09.05

Somebody was listening to some of the new album in the office this morning: 'Ride A White Horse' and 'Number 1'.

Oh my God, I'd almost forgotten that I NEED to own this album.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:48 / 23.09.05

I've been thinking about what makes a particular song sexy - with 'Ooh La La' I think it's the discontinuity between the obvious raunch of the music, and some of the lyrically styling. When Alison Goldfrapp sings the almost archaic "Oh child of Venus, you're just made for love", the music tells you that "made for love" actually means "built for fucking", but the fact that it's put almost quaintly (etymologists, hello) is what makes it hot. Because coy, I guess.

And so I can still enjoy it despite those mobile phone adverts.

All Acting Regiment

10:33 / 23.09.05

That horse on the video is amazingly potent, isn't it?

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:36 / 23.09.05

Has it had fathered many foals?

haus of fraser

09:24 / 28.09.05

Goldfrapp are touring Febuary next year. Still not seen them so I may be tempted by Brixton academy...

Anybody got/ care to comment on supernature yet? My interest is in it is waning a little to be truthful- there are great songs on it but few suprises- I still maintain that Satin Chic is the best track on there- and would have been a much bolder first single than anything else on the record- its also the only track that i skip to on it now.

Thoughts people? Flyboy I can't believe you don't have this/ haven't commented on it yet.

anyways Febuary tour Dates:

Cardiff Great Hall (February 1)
Southampton Guildhall (2)
Cambridge Corn Exchange (4)
Reading Hexagon (5)
London Brixton Carling Academy (9-10)
Manchester Apollo (18)
Liverpool University (21)
Sheffield Octagon (23)
Birmingham Carling Academy (24)
Belfast Ulster Hall (26)
Dublin Olympia (27)

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:52 / 28.09.05

I got the album on Sunday - so far I fucking love it. 'Satin Chic' is very good, but the one that's immediately stuck in my head and the one I keep coming back to is 'Number 1' - actually a very warm, loving song, which I like because that's not what people tend to associate with the 'Frapp at all.

At this stage, I'd say it's one of the most consistently impressive albums I've heard all year.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:04 / 29.09.05

Has anyone else noticed that 'Satin Chic' bears quite a strong resemblance to Bowie's 'John, I'm Only Dancing'?

Benny the Ball

18:34 / 01.10.05

Still loving it, still loving Ooh La La, still in love with Alison Goldfrapp. I was gutted that work meant that I wouldn't get a chance to see them, but February could well see me treating myself and Mrs The Ball to a cheeky ticket or two.

As for what makes the song sexy, it's the breathless, almost lazy delivery of many of the words, caught somewhere betweeen orgasm and boredom, that leaves you feeling horny and rejected and wanting more. Or something.

haus of fraser

16:04 / 06.10.05

Lucky for you Shaftoe Number 1 is the new single with a rather marvelous video which can be downloaded here.

I do like the song although it didn't jump out at me as a single, but its growing on me. There's an Ultravoxy synth thing going on which does sound significantly different from the other albums- as i said before this is my main issue with the supernature- i like it but it hasn't blown me away in the same way that Black Cherry did...

Benny the Ball

13:38 / 15.02.06

Bump - Me and Mrs The Ball did indeed go to Brixton on Sunday, a christmas treat from MTB. They were simply fantastic - lights flashing in a blinding, seventies, effortless homage to disco and glam rock, her voice, my lord, her voice is amazing. And the bass just came and came and came in waves, wriggling through you like Barry Allen through a solid wall. Not one bad moment. People should check out the Number 1 b side 'Beautiful' - like having a brilliant new single, the first time I heard it was sunday, and downloaded it once home, it is supurb.

I loved the fact that the band came on, followed by the refined and diva-ish Alison, all dressed up, silver jump suit, black bat wing unitard, silver trousers and silver kangol hat, and there was the drummer, in jeans and a tee-shirt, having none of it.

One of the best concerts I've ever been to.

ZF!

15:08 / 15.02.06

I went on Sunday too,

I'm not that much of a fan of Goldfrapp, I own Black Cherry, and that's it, the main reason I went was because a group of my friends were going, and I thought it'd be nice to go to a gig in a largish group for a change, of my usual one or two mates. I was however, pleasantly surprised by the whole experience, while I didn't know all the songs (apart from the ones on Black Cherry of course) the other singles were familiar, and I loved "Number 1", which I had never heard before that night. What a brilliant tune. By Jove that girl's got a good voice! Interested to know what that special effects mic she was using was.

It's been a while since I've seen an actual gig with dancers and the like. Thought it added nicely to the whole spectacle of it, I suppose I miss this kind of thing, with the usual indie bands that I go see. I thought It was a nice compromise, performance wise (and price wise), between those bands and your Madge's and Kylie's.

Essential Dazzler

00:53 / 13.01.08

Earlier today I was totally taken by surprise when I stumbled across a download of Goldfrapp's forthcoming album "Seventh Tree". I haven't listened to all of it yet, only chunks of each song. My first impression was that it's a return to the sound of Felt Mountain, but it isn't really, it has a similar tone but it's reliance on actual instrumentation and the far more consistent sound mark it as different.

It's far from a bad album, and it's inarguably something new from the band, but I'm not sure I like it too much.

None of the songs come close to capturing the knee-wobbling sexiness of Oooh La La or similar tracks, and that's where Goldfrapp shine for me. I love them for their mastery of ambient pop, but I sought them out because they can do sexy and immediate when they try, and that's just so much... Better?

uncle retrospective

10:06 / 13.01.08

I know what you mean, I've had the album a while and after the first listen I never went back to it. Where did the sexy go?

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