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| From | Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Poll (was RE: 2006, let's hear it) |
| Date | Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:44:28 -0500 (EST) |
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Sam:
> Miles Goosens wrote:
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> I shall take this opportunity to remind people that the album I voted #1 for 2005, Goldfrapp's SUPERNATURE, got its U.S. release earlier this year, and thus could and should be embraced by all sensible people on this side of the pond in these here 2006 polls. Heck, it'd be my #1 of 2006 if I hadn't voted it my #1 of 2005.
>
>
>I can't quite call it my #1, but boy can I find a lot nice to say about
>it. I think the odd thing about the record is that while it's solid one
>end to the other, the incredible strength of the first three tracks make
>it seem a little uneven.
>
>So, Portishead meets T. Rex, anyone?
That's probably apt for this 'un, and I have to mention Roxy Music as a big influence too. SUPERNATURE's predecessor, BLACK CHERRY, is a bit less-disco-y, a bit more gritty electric funk, and equally impressive. The first album, FELT MOUNTAIN, is the outlier: Bond soundtrack songs from outer space. I really didn't appreciate the quality of the individual songs on FELT MOUNTAIN until watching the WONDERFUL ELECTRIC live DVD, where the FELT MOUNTAIN songs get split apart from each other and could sine individually when juxtaposed with the more propulsive BLACK CHERRY tracks. (The live DVD also clued me in to how many sounds weren't synths after all, but treated Alison Goldfrapp vocals. You also get a 2nd DVD with a very good FELT MOUNTAIN show.)
It's probably too easy a comparison, but Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory seem to me like Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart for the 2000s. That's a big compliment in my book.
later,
Miles
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