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Name .:. Alison Goldfrapp - Flux
Genre : Electronic
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Alison Goldfrapp
Label : A.G Records
Titel : Flux
Tracks : 10
Playtime : 37:21
Size : 70,79 MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 264kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.Hey Hi Hello 03:09
02.Sound & Light 03:18
03.Reverberotic 04:18
04.Strange Things Happen 04:45
05.Ultrasky 04:07
06.Play It (Shine Like A Nova Star) 02:55
07.Find Xanadu 03:10
08.Cinnamon Light 03:45
09.Ordinary Day 03:52
10.Magma 04:02
Total 37:21 Min
In 2005, Supernature won Alison Goldfrapp and Will
Gregory their first Grammy nomination, a pile of
sync money, and an undeniable influence over the
sound of pop to come. It gave aspiring indie-dance
acts greater permission to embrace levity and
inebriated partygoers plenty of coke anthems and
ill-advised karaoke options. And it gave Goldfrapp
an image they d never fully escape: the
electroclash-era buzz band in 80s outfits. It s a
reputational flattening that treats the delicate,
more organic material that makes up at least half of
their discography as an afterthought, or an
unwelcome musical power outage. It reduces Alison
Goldfrapp s role to that of a unifunctional synth
dominatrix frontwoman the kind of banal misogyny
that she s lamented in interviews. It elevates the
iconic, at the expense of the spellbinding.
But how would you prefer to be remembered by
history, should you be so lucky: at your most
influential, or at your most you? Decades into her
career, Goldfrapp still has spells to cast. Her
second solo album, Flux, arrives from her own label,
written during a period when she was single for the
first time in years. Judging by the music, life for
her felt heady with possibility. I want to swoon, I
want to bloom, she declares on Play It (Shine Like
a Nova Star) ; elsewhere, she conjures reveries for
somewhere and somebody new. Like The Love
Invention, Flux was co-produced with Richard X,
2000s Britpop s master of dancefloor fillers. But
Flux seeks a more elusive chemistry: Even when
Goldfrapp sings about the platonic sublime such as
the awestruck Sound & Light, inspired by her
longing to see the aurora borealis she infuses it
with mystery. As David Lynch once tweeted, she s
connected to the moon.
Well, that or the luna goo, as Goldfrapp coos at
the beginning of Reverberotic. The track is the
strictest machine here: a slow, steady synth grind
that shivers with falling-star effects; the
metaphorical counterparts are surely intended. But
despite its goopy intro and Eusexua-style neologism,
it s not a joke. Goldfrapp s vocals are so
airbrushed that the intro registers less as words
(perhaps for the best, in this case) than a
continuous swoon. She means what she says and on the
next track, the besotted and very reverbed Strange
Things Happen, she proves it.
Of Goldfrapp s discography, Flux resembles most the
ethereal atmospherics of Seventh Tree or the noir
fairytales of Tales of Us. UltraSky begins with a
lonely SOS into the darkness, then gives way to a
breathy sunrise, Goldfrapp s voice rising out of its
husky register into an Aerial soprano. The Italo
disco-esque Magma is less song than haze; it heats
the air by convection. As Goldfrapp s gone solo, her
music s become more about connection, and the most
bitter track, Play It, is also the hardest-edged,
both in sound and imagery. Goldfrapp s voice is fed
into a vocoder sneer, and the image of choice is a
nova star something that explodes on its own.
This is all familiar musical territory, in no small
part because of Goldfrapp s own influence. Hey Hi
Hello is an exuberant dance-pop track in the Call
Your Girlfriend mold, out to prove there s no
worldly complication of love that can t be blasted
away with enough glitter. Perhaps inevitably,
Richard X s presence tends to make this material
converge toward Annie; Find Xanadu in particular
lives in the same realm of hothouse melodrama as
Anthonio or her later Dark Hearts. But Goldfrapp s
voice is sinuous enough to set the songs apart,
slipping through cracks where other vocalists might
straightforwardly belt. Her writing, too, is
disarmingly optimistic; even the roller-rink couples
skate of Cinnamon Light or the storybook
transcendentalism of Ordinary Day come off earnest
rather than saccharine. And, unlike many albums to
come from its synth-pop cohort, Flux resists being
taken apart for playlists. Set almost any similar
song against it, and you realize how heady a spell
has just been broken.
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