Goldfrapp

[mackos]

Oh, it really is! At first moment it was so surprising to hear that 80-'s like beat in a Goldfrapp song but the whole thing is great! Can't wait for the whole album now

 

[Scott]

am i the only one that thinks it sounds like cheese-mill journey mixed with a little bit of dee d. jackson? rather a disappointment to me. it's also seems a bit redundant to do more 80's-style synth when it's practically clogging indie-airwaves as it is with la roux and little boots etc. one would think in typical goldfrapp fashion they would do something different.

it really makes one realise,we'll never hear anything as close and as strong as felt mountain ever again.

 

[Annu]

It sounds very promising! Love new art work, all those wonderful colors.

 

[deer_st0p]

Another new song has been posted on their official youtube channel,

It's called Believer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd8Uba5ZCgA

 

[Scott]

^well,i will admit it is better than rocket but i still have reservations that it sounds a bit same-y.

 

[from: sophia]

Oh no its been pulled down I want to hear it

 

[Scott]

^

rocket
http://idolator.com/5375502/goldfrapp-blast-off-to-the-80s-with-new-single-rocket

believer
http://idolator.com/5386072/listen-to-goldfrapp-and-become-a-believer

 

[Scott]

Yesterday, Le Tigre was talking up their collaboration with Christina Aguilera. Today, it's Goldfrapp's turn -- though the synth-duo claims they don't even remember what their song for her sounds like. Maybe we'll just pick up their new album Head First (out March 9) instead of Christina's upcoming Bionic, instead. ABBA and ELO influences? Cover a song from the Xanadu soundtrack and we'll be in guilty-pleasure heaven.

i'm not sure whether to believe they really don't know or maybe that they're heart just wasn't so into it they really don't? it's kind of funny nevertheless

also,did not know Le Tigre was also involved with this collaboration effort(or i.e. desperation)with Xtina. i was reading a few weeks back in an interview with daniel hunt from ladytron talking about how impressed he was with the knowledge she had with their music as well as how well she adapated her voice with each sound.

*dose.ca/music/2514245/story.html

 

[Scott]

btw,is it really true that alison is dating that woman we continue seeing her with at events and such...lisa gunning?

if that's true,hell yeah!

 

[Scott]

here's the more extensive article from rollingstone.com

Goldfrapp Embrace Abba, ELO on “Head First,” Talk Aguilera Collabo
2/2/10, 1:29 pm EST

Electro-pop duo Goldfrapp wrapped work on their fifth album Head First (due March 9th) just a few weeks ago. “It’s so new we don’t even know what we think about it,” says lead synthesizer tweaker Will Gregory. The pair wrote and recorded the entire record in a six-month blur between March and December of 2009, only breaking to work on the score to the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. “It was a bit mental,” says lead singer and co-songwriter Alison Goldfrapp. “The last month was a bit scary. But actually I quite like that we just did it, bam, done, next thing. Although a couple of things suffered for it. We’re doing another photo shoot because there wasn’t enough time to pick out what I wanted to wear.”

After skipping down a folkie, pastoral direction on last year’s Seventh Tree, the band has returned full-force to the expansive synth work that made them underground darlings. Absorbing the ethereal atmosphere of Giorgio Moroder’s Cat People soundtrack and the skeletal fuzz-bluster of Suicide’s 1977 melancholy synth-punk blueprint “Cheree,” Head First has an edge that’s softer, warmer and dreamier than Goldfrapp’s Dance Chart-topping club bangers like “Ooh La La.” As Gregory says, “It was more about the way the songs work melodically than it was about being a big electronic racket. We’re just trying to evolve, get closer to the essence of what a bloody good song is.”

Accordingly, the hooks on Head First are the group’s most optimistic and immediate to date. Alison equates a new positive outlook due to a series of life decisions that she won’t elaborate upon, but sums up with, “Yeah, I got happy.” Deliberately setting out to make an “up” record, the band has been listening to late period Abba and Gregory had been spinning Electric Light Orchestra. “It’s listening to things that miss in a particular way,” says Gregory. “ELO misses in a fantastic way, but it definitely isn’t cool.”

Beyond the sessions for Head First, the duo had spent a week in Los Angeles in 2009, blessing pop superstar Christina Aguilera with some retro-futuristic sounds for her upcoming, electro-heavy fourth album Bionic. Although whether the track will be included is anybody’s guess.

“We don’t know what’s happening with it,” says Goldfrapp. “We don’t know whether she’s having an album out and we don’t know if the track’s on the album. We know nothing.” “She was very sweet. Very professional, really on… She knew exactly what she wanted. She was really articulate about what she was trying to do. Just seemed really in control,” adds Gregory. “We got the track to a certain point. But we haven’t heard anything since. It kind of needs finishing.”

When asked what the Goldfrapp/Christina collaboration sounds like, Gregory exclaims, “I don’t remember!”

“Not that good as far as we’re concerned, because it needs some work,” adds Goldfrapp. “So we ****ing hope it isn’t going on the record, because it ain’t finished!”

Christopher R. Weingarten

 

[Scott]

i like the idea of they being influenced by suicide's 'cheree',ELO and moroder's cat people.

i will say that although i still a bit ambivalent about the new stuff 'rocket' is kind of growing on me. but whether it'll be a timeless goldfrapp masterpiece for me,still not confident.

 

[from: sophia]

I like believer a lot

 

[Annu]

^Me too! Can't wait to here whole album.

 

[Annu]

from popjustice.com:
Ten things you will learn from our Goldfrapp interview
Earlier this month we sat down with Alison and Will from Goldfrapp to ask them questions you'd submitted. During the course of our interview the following facts emerged.

1. In news that will disappoint a Popjustice reader by the name of Rod there is not, as far as they are concerned, a subliminal penis on the 'Head First' album sleeve.

2. The 'Rocket' video has a rocket in it, and a big truck.

3. When Alison met Simon Cowell a few years ago he was wearing a pink jumper.

4. They're not quite sure if the song they wrote for Christina Aguilera is on the Christina album, but they'd like it to be.

5. Alison recently experienced THE MOST BORING CHRISTMAS CRACKERS OF ALL TIME.

6. Good news: the new album IS suitable for water aerobics.

7. Alison would like to work as a cleaner in Spain.

8. Will is a fan of cats.

9. Alison is not a fan of cats in clothes.

10. Alison has never hear of 80s pop songstrel Kelly Marie. The song still sounds great; certain other aspects of this performance have aged less well.

Read more

 

[Scott]

what a fun interview! i think that's one of the best i've read with them in while.

i'm glad they kind of dispelled the x-tina rumours that's been going round the web. and you know with x-tina saying she's working with them as if it's something quite extensive,it did worry and bewilder a lot of people.

 

[Scott]

vid for rocket



i dunno what to make of it really. i do think it's very funny though. torturing one's philandering lover and sending him on a rocket...

btw,if anyone hasn't heard it yet i got the alive track and it's actually very good...i'm liking it more that rocket and believer. even though nowhere near the quality of the first albums i will say this one will certainly be a cut above supernature,imo.

 

[Annu]

I heard album sampler today and it is very promising.

 

[Scott]

just in case anybody missed it will is teaming up with adrian utley from portishead once again(as they worked together on FM) but for a film score..

Portishead and Goldfrapp Team Up on Silent Film Score
3/4/2010 By Stephen Carlick

Just when you thought Portishead had hit their cinematic peak with 2008’s Third, member Adrian Utley goes and scores another film, this time with Goldfrapp beat-maker Will Gregory.

As FACT points out, the two have recently finished work on a new score for Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc. The silent black and white film will be screened at Colston Hall in Bristol, England, on May 7. Utley and Gregory will premiere their score live during the screening, and will be accompanied by six electric guitars, members of the Monteverdi Choir, percussion, horns and keyboards, with Charles Hazlewood conducting.

No word yet if the score will get a proper album release.

The film is highly regarded in the genre of silent cinema. It tells the story of Joan of Arc’s eventful life up to her execution on May 30, 1431, and was shot mostly in close-ups to let the faces of the actors lead the narrative. When the film’s negatives were claimed by a studio fire, they were considered lost until another set was found in a Norwegian mental institution in 1981.

*exclaim.ca

 

[Scott]

okay i was able to obtain an advanced copy of the album and i must say compared with so many that are doing '80's synth' goldfrapp do it waaaaaay better! it's a bit literal,yes,but just the sound specifically is so layered compared with so much that i've heard from other artists. it's also much closer to the pleasing sound of the remix of 'physical' they did. and alison's voice is really strong...probably stronger than it was on seventh tree and most certainly supernature. certainly a range not displayed since felt mountain,imo.


and voicething,btw,probably my favourite and distinctly surreal goldfrapp on the album. it's very vangelis meets laurie anderson.

 

[mademoiselle_]

Omg the album is magnificent!!!