Goldfrapp Seventh Tree

There's something about that mournful, wavering quality to Gibbon's voice that has always bothered me. There's something that sounds so weak and clinging (in personality not in sound) about it that I just can't relate.

It's funny, because even though Goldfrapp often works the same kind of territory (that fragile little girl whispiness) there's a fundamental strength and vibrancy to her voice that makes her work more rich and appealing to me.

But this may entirely be projection based on image, I admit. Goldfrapp's voice seems like it would sink a bolt of brandy and pick itself up and go on, while Gibbons' voice, you kind of just want to give it a slap and tell it to snap out of it.

(But I admit this may be related to the depression I've just had to claw myself out of as much as the music itself.)

completely indifferent to this album - robo stuff was OK but nothing beats the lonely spy vibe of Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp's voice seems like it would sink a bolt of brandy and pick itself up and go on, while Gibbons' voice, you kind of just want to give it a slap and tell it to snap out of it.

Hmm, I know what you're saying, and I partly agree, but I have a totally opposite emotional response to it. Goldfrapp sounds like she's just playing with each genre and it's kind of fun to pick apart the influences etc, but that's as involved as I get. Gibbons does what she does cos she's got no fucking choice and that really resonates with me.

I can hear my mother's therapist echoing in my ear "You have a choice. You always have a choice." I'm just sick of the sound of weeping women, you know?

Anyway, it's ALL ABOUT the moment in Little Bird about 2.40 where the looping melotron goes all psychedelic and the drums kick in with the bassline and she starts singing JULY LIE LIE LIEE LAAA LAAAA LAA and extemporising the riff and I get shivers down my spine and want to throw my head back and dance about a maypole or something.

It's like they took one of those fake Chemical Bros Beatles riffs and turned it inside out and made it amazing.

(And it's funny, I've spent so much time listening to the BTWS remix of Happiness that it's weird to hear the original and realise that it's not actually about happiness at all, really - it's about being sucked into a Cult!)

Clowns is the only song from this that I ever feel compelled to listen to.

I kind of agree with this: "it makes me feel a bit "Grown Up" to listen to it". There would have been a time when I'd have been unable to listen to it. It sounded nice this morning, accompanying the walk up the lane to the bus stop ...

The song that sounds most like Felt Mountain here is "Cologne Cerrone Houdini" and it is spectacular. I'm surprised it doesn't get more mentions.

Completely agree that it's a "grown up" album, but it's aged remarkably well.

Was revisiting because of this: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/before_goldfrapp_before_kate_bush_there_was_noosha_fox