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April 2003 |
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Review |
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BBC 6 Music |
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Black Cherry |
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UK |
Journalist/Photographer |
Jim Simmons |
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With less than three weeks 'till the New Year, we asked 6 Music staff to pick their favourite albums to have featured as Album of the Day during the past twelve months. The votes are in, the scores have been totted up and every day this week you'll be able to hear tracks from the five albums given an unequivocal thumbs up by the 6 Music team. What follows is what our reviewer said about Black Cherry when the album was released earlier this year.
Goldfrapp's first album, Felt Mountain, sold half a million copies and was an ethereal blend of soaring vocals, synths and strings reminiscent of a 70s thriller soundtrack. A great album for the morning after.
The band?s latest offering, Black Cherry, sees Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory putting on their dancing shoes with the throbbing synth-driven back beats of Train and Twist. The old Goldfrapp sound does make an extended appearance though. A few tracks: Deep Honey, Hairy Trees and Forever sound like the leftovers from Felt Mountain.
Alison Goldfrapp?s magnificent voice is more of a lead instrument than a mechanism for delivering a lyric. She uses different registers, filters it through the synths, screams and whispers. This is probably a good thing as lyrics like ?wolf lady sucks my brain, apricot sunrise came? don?t really give us a new insight into the human condition.
It may not be as sweeping and lyrical as Felt Mountain but the punch of Black Cherry adds a new string to Goldfrapp?s bow. |
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