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September |
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Magazine |
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Uncut magazine |
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Labour of lustre |
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UK |
| Journalist/Photographer |
Barney Hoskins/ Ross Kirton |
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Follow-up to the magnificent Black Cherry provides further glitterlust antics
GOLDFRAPP TOOK A big chance when they abandonned the swoonsome muzak of 2001's Felt Mountain for the kinky machinery of 2003's glamastic Black Cherry. Few had anticipated the switch from the neo-John Barry soundscapes of "Utopia" and "Lovely Head" to the dirty flirtation of "Train" and "Twist". Verve and yearning merged on Black Cherry in songs of smellbinding sexiness.
Supernature - its title a nod to the late '70s Eurodisco of cerrone and friends - takes Black Cherry's salacious plasticity to a logical pop extreme. Constructed in a Somerset cottage, Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp's third album kicks off with three thumping teen-disco outings (the single 'Ooh La La", "Lovely To See You", Ride A White Horse") that forge an unlikely but inspired fusion of Marc Bolan and Giorgio Moroder. The soundtrack to some low-rent Studio 54 of the mind, the three tracks derive from what Alison accurately calls the "slightly throwaway but slightly nasty poutiness" of Chinnichap glam. Which is fine, except thet here the hooks are rather less arresting than the equivalent moments on Black Cherry. "Lovely To See You", for instance, is almost self-consciously crass, melodically dumbed down where "Twist" and "Strict Machine" were artfully ambiguous. If "Slide In" and "Beautiful" pick up where "Twist" et al left off, "Fly Me Away" is oddly ordinary.
Supernature evokes synth-pop ghosts - Gary Numan on "Koko", "Blue Monday" era New Order on "Ride A White Horse" - and even dablbles in Scissor Sisters faux-honky tonk on the Top Of The Pops romp of "Satin Chic". Meanwhile, for those who fear the fading of the duo's lush melancholia, the iridescent "U Never Know" (followed by the plangent reverie of "Let It Take U", with actual acoustic piano) already scores high in the Loveliest Song Of The Year stakes: a diamond of a song to stand alongside " Black Cherry", "Deep Honey" and its heartache kin. "Time Out From The World", finally, is the ultimate Theme For An Imagery Bond Movie.
Black Cherry this ain't, then. As a companion piece to its genius predecessor, though, Supernature is planty to be going on with.
Barney Hoskyns
Q&A
UNCUT : What's the difference between Black Cherry and Supernature?
ALISON GOLDFRAPP: Ooh, that's hard, I don't know. It's green, it's glittery. I think the main thing was Will and me trying for something quite simple and direct. Normally we go for a lot of texture, so it was a challenge to do something like "Ride A White Horse", which started off with just bass and drums.
"Satin Chic" could be the Scissor Sisters. Do you like them?
I like the fact that they haven't been manufactured, that their sound and image seem to come from themselves. There's so little of that about. So many pop acts are shaped by stylists and outside people, whereas we've always been very hands on with the way we present ourselves.
"Time Out From The World" should be the next Bond theme. Would you like to be asked?
Yeah, but they'd never let us do it the way we wanted. |
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