Goldfrapp - 'Head First' (Mute)
Whether they know it or not, many of this generation’s most magnetic pop artists are in hock to Alison Goldfrapp . Lily Allen , La Roux , Little Boots … all owe the frizz-haired synth dominatrix some artistic debt or other, and that’s...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (15/02/10)
1. Egyptian Hip Hop – ‘Wild Human Child’ Is it inspired by the WB Yeats poem The Stolen Child? We don’t know, but it’s just as magical and dreamy, taking the dissipated, glitchy, fuzzy warmth of the ‘glo-fi’ blog bedroom pop...
Goldfrapp
If you’re expecting any pretty feather boas, sparkly disco-balls or sashaying deer heads, leave now. Goldfrapp are back and the pair are in a thoroughly folky state of mind. Gone are the dirty disco beats, whip-cracking erotica and tassels. And...
Goldfrapp
The first single from Goldfrapp’s nervously anticipated ‘Seventh Tree’, gallops into view on not so much a diamanté stallion as a doe-eyed Shetland pony, and it’s just plain lovely. Wipe ‘Strict Machine’ from your memory –...
Goldfrapp : Supernature
If Alison Goldfrapp ever was the girl next door, she obviously moved out to enrol in the Studio 54 School Of Disco Diva-ship some time ago. Here she commands – no, demands – attention. Continuing the dancefloor-friendly grooves of 2003’s...
Goldfrapp : Strict Machine
Another not-before-time rerelease When this single was first released last August, it got to Number 25. "How supremely rubbish," everyone must have thought. And yet! How also-very-fortunate: if it'd been any sort of proper hit then we might not...
Goldfrapp : Lovely Head/Pilots
The crazy success of former Tricky collaborator Alison Goldfrapp and her partner in trip-hop, Will Gregory, continues apace. Though thoughtlessly overlooked by the tofu-brained heroin addicts at the Mercury Music Prize, there's still no...
Goldfrapp : Utopia (Genetically Modified)
Despite the lingering suspicion that they make music solely for graphic designers, Goldfrapp's art-hop is undeniably enchanting. The Pet Shop Boys writing a West End musical is pretty great but imagine Ennio Morricone and Björk getting...
London SW1 ICA
When Alison Goldfrapp sings, the room falls silent. But where once her voice provided psychotic octave-bounding gymnastics on records by Orbital , Add N To X and Tricky , today it sighs modestly over a selection of tasteful torch songs. Where...
Felt Mountain
She left her mind somewhere in a field in Wiltshire. Having crooned over Tricky 's fractured beatscapes, guested on Orbital 's 'Snivilisation' , and hung with Add N To (X) , when it came to constructing her own record, Alison Goldfrapp left...
