You're My Saturday
I honestly have no idea why I'm so late to the party on this one, but I'm thrilled to show up just in time for the release of another superb album from my new favorite pop band, Goldfrapp.
Vocalist Alison (Goldfrapp) sang along with three of my cherished beat-makers (Tricky and The Brothers Orbital) back in the day, so again, there's no reasonable excuse for my not noticing and following her career sooner.
In 1999, while I was busy enacting chaos magic to Orbital's Middle of Nowhere, Alison and composer Will Gregory formed Goldfrapp and signed with Mute Records.
Almost a decade later, my Dad introduces me to the TV series Life, whose kickass music supervisor uses Goldfrapp's "Ooh La La" to sex up a key scene. I realize I've been living in a cave and yank my head outta the sand to do some listening.
Within a week, I'm a slavering fan.
Friends put up with me railing on about the creative power of duality, all the way from cell division at the goopy, grimy microscopic level on up to the heavenly firmament and its castoffs estranged here on terra firma. Truly amazing music doesn't escape my pet theory, neither: get the right two people together and real magic happens. I add Will and Alison to a long list of perfect matches whose sounds have scored my life since childhood, a thread I follow from Dave and Annie through to Vince and Andy, Bjork and Nellee (and later, Mark), Paul and Phil...even musical slut Dr Alex and his finest muses three: Thrash, Hughes, and Fehlmann.
Speaking of The Orb, their new Dream was a lovely return to dub fun a few months ago. And pre-New Year, Paul Hartnoll left me dazed and overwhelmed with his amazing solo debut The Ideal Condition. But Goldfrapp arrives for me as a ready-made soundtrack to what is, so far, shaping up to be a wonderful 2008. The new LP Seventh Tree speaks of spring to my ears, for starters - but I can't wait to listen to this record deep in the heat of summer, where I know its jaded/hopeful heart resides.
Save your cynicism, if you got some. I'm given to hyperbole when I'm this happy. And if music is a way to formally structure emotion (as I've argued), then this is what joy sounds like.
I say: crank that shit up.
"A&E", the unbelievably beautiful new single.
Listen to Goldfrapp at my Anywhere.fm!
Vocalist Alison (Goldfrapp) sang along with three of my cherished beat-makers (Tricky and The Brothers Orbital) back in the day, so again, there's no reasonable excuse for my not noticing and following her career sooner.
In 1999, while I was busy enacting chaos magic to Orbital's Middle of Nowhere, Alison and composer Will Gregory formed Goldfrapp and signed with Mute Records.
Almost a decade later, my Dad introduces me to the TV series Life, whose kickass music supervisor uses Goldfrapp's "Ooh La La" to sex up a key scene. I realize I've been living in a cave and yank my head outta the sand to do some listening.
Within a week, I'm a slavering fan.
Friends put up with me railing on about the creative power of duality, all the way from cell division at the goopy, grimy microscopic level on up to the heavenly firmament and its castoffs estranged here on terra firma. Truly amazing music doesn't escape my pet theory, neither: get the right two people together and real magic happens. I add Will and Alison to a long list of perfect matches whose sounds have scored my life since childhood, a thread I follow from Dave and Annie through to Vince and Andy, Bjork and Nellee (and later, Mark), Paul and Phil...even musical slut Dr Alex and his finest muses three: Thrash, Hughes, and Fehlmann.
Speaking of The Orb, their new Dream was a lovely return to dub fun a few months ago. And pre-New Year, Paul Hartnoll left me dazed and overwhelmed with his amazing solo debut The Ideal Condition. But Goldfrapp arrives for me as a ready-made soundtrack to what is, so far, shaping up to be a wonderful 2008. The new LP Seventh Tree speaks of spring to my ears, for starters - but I can't wait to listen to this record deep in the heat of summer, where I know its jaded/hopeful heart resides.
Save your cynicism, if you got some. I'm given to hyperbole when I'm this happy. And if music is a way to formally structure emotion (as I've argued), then this is what joy sounds like.
I say: crank that shit up.
"A&E", the unbelievably beautiful new single.
Listen to Goldfrapp at my Anywhere.fm!
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