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Date August 17
Type Review
Source Timeout
Title Goldfrapp, Supernature
Country UK
Journalist/Photographer Sharon O'Connell/ Ross Kirton
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Text The title implies both a Technicolor-toned, 'Fantasia'-like idyll and some futuristic, genetically modified über-reality. These were the territories conjured by Goldfrapp's debut LP 'Felt Moutain' and 2003's 'Black Cherry' respectively. Now, the place where those two worlds meet.
According to tradition, a band's third LP should be the sound of a band either treading water or panicking. Rather, it represents a justifiably self-confident move from electro-pop's fringes into the mirror-balled limelight, with the duo filling in the synth-driven steps outlined by their 'train' and 'Strict Machine' singles. 'Supernature' throbs with such an irresistibly sexy, glitter-dusted, disco pulse that Madonna and Kylie will surely be spitting tacks on first listen.
First single, 'Ooh La La' suggests not only a feminised Suicide, but also Jimi Tenor's sleazy funk and the glammy stomp of T Rex, while Alison Goldfrapp appropriates Kate Bush's divinely giddy voice for the dark, Gary Numan-referencing 'Koko'. 'Beautiful' is an unashamed - yet entirely successful - homage to Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love', while the deliriously good-time strut of 'Satin Chic' sounds like nothing so much as Olivia Newton-John covering Depeche Mode's 'Personal Jesus', although Alison's side-kick Will Gregory makes the genius move of picking out the lurching central motif on a honky-tonk piano, rather than a synth. The somptuous 'Time Out From The World' is all the best bits of Bassey/Bond themes combined but, if the pair hire producer du moment, Paul Epworth, to do a 12-inch remix of the fabulous 'Fly Me Away', they'll streak into the electro-pop stratosphere, conquering airwaves from Birmingham to Bangkok as they go. Flushed, sexy and improbably beautiful, 'Supernautre' is the bee's whiskers. Goldfrapp, your gilt carriage awaits.

 
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