I really love this record. It’s basically a huge audition for a James Bond theme.
The singles were good. And Drew is possibly the most beautiful song ever recorded:
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Did they ever get asked to do Bond? And if not why not? Hell, she could even be the bond girl too, and Will Gregory some kind of synth villain
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Because they prefer the likes of Sam smith and Adele!???
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Not to my knowledge. Crying shame.
And Radiohead… Think Goldfrapp would be perfect.
an easy 5/5 for me, one of the best albums of the last 10 years.
I wish they’d put the accompanying film out to buy. Anyway it’s on Youtube in 5 parts;
it sorta tells a story if you watch it in this order
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Specifically the director of Spectre, Sam Mendes, is a big Radiohead fan, as I understand it. I’m not sure they’d have been asked at all otherwise.
Also it looks like Goldfrapp were in the running for Casino Royale
https://www.spin.com/2006/06/goldfrapp-pen-james-bond-theme/
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Enjoyed this album a lot when it came out.
Saw them play most of it live at Greenwich Naval College which is one of the most attractive settings for a gig I’ve been to. Lovely evening…
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https://open.spotify.com/album/68qdWFsPKFIjMHb3VTDIrd?si=kbqAFH4NQrOpoiRvBoEXag
Last Poll for Goldfrapp albums…
In July 2015, Alison Goldfrapp announced on Twitter that the group had returned to the studio to work on music for the forthcoming seventh album, but was mum as to a release date, stating she could only generalize it to be “sometime in 2017”.[5] This came after finishing their tour to promote their last album, Tales of Us , and scoring a Royal National Theatreproduction of Medea . Goldfrapp noted their desire to do something different from previous albums Supernature and Head First , eventually bringing in John Congleton (Blondie, St Vincent, Swans) and The Haxan Cloak to produce on the strength of his work on Björk’s 2015 album Vulnicura .[6]
In early December 2016, Goldfrapp posted on their Instagram page the covers of their first six studio albums, and later that month, the band posted an image of two topless figures with bleached blonde hair holding each other’s heads with arms slicked with a black, oil-like substance. The social media upload was hashtagged ‘#goldfrapp7’, implying it was a piece born from the album’s creative and marketing campaign.[7] The title of the album, Silver Eye , was accidentally leaked with the posting of a pre-order link on the HMV website on 21 January 2017,[8] and was later confirmed in a press release by the band on 23 January.[4][1][9]
The press release also announced the release of the album’s opening track, “Anymore”, as the album’s lead single. Released on 9 February, the official music video for “Anymore” was directed by Alison Goldfrapp, produced by Mary Calderwood, and filmed in Fuerteventura.[10] Two further tracks were released ahead of the album. On 9 March 2017, Goldfrapp premiered the album’s closing track, “Ocean”, through Billboard and released to digital music retailers on 10 March.[11] “Moon in Your Mouth” was released on 24 March 2017.[12]
The music video for the second single “Systemagic” premiered on 24 April 2017.[13] The music video for the third single “Everything Is Never Enough” premiered on Nowness on 7 September 2017.
On 19 May 2018 it was announced on the band’s social media pages that an announcement and video were to be unveiled over the weekend. On May 21, 2018, a remix of “Ocean” featuring Dave Gahan was released worldwide, along with the news that it would be the lead single from a deluxe edition of Silver Eye.
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Love this album, I’d maybe have it second behind Seventh Tree
love that setlist, such a quiet even and then all of a sudden they whip all the bangers out
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No exagerration, I think it might be one of my favourite gigs ever…
This was the album that brought me back in. I really love it. A good mix of Goldfrapp-y styles, but with excellent tunes.
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Catching up…
Tales of Us
I like this. I really like the style and direction. Theres a few corkers on here (Drew, Annebel…) but I find it a bit of a slog for a whole album, despite it’s obvious beauty. Feels like it needs a change of pace. Overall though, fairly strong I think.
Silver Eye
Find this a bit of a slog for v different reasons. I find this very (electro-) Goldfrapp by numbers. They’ve refined that side of their sound here but to me it feels like you could have written the songs through a Goldfrapp songwriting algorithm. I listened again today for the first time in a while and I struggled to get to the end. Just felt bored. Just me?
The Results / Average Ratings
- Black Cherry 4.14
- Tales of us 4.07
- Seventh Tree 3.93
- Head First 3.90
- Supernature / Felt Mountain 3.87
- Silver Eye 3.75
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I mean… That ain’t cannon. Head First better than Felt Mountain?! THREAD CANCELLED
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Silver Eye last ffs
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I was shocked. For what it’s worth my own personal order would be
- Supernature
- Tales of us
- Seventh tree
- Black cherry
- Silver eye
- Felt mountain
- Head first
There’s really nothing between those numbers. All the albums have been voted 4 out of five rounding very slightly up and down on those scores.
Seventh Tree is their best for me by quite a distance.
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Ya hunch o bloody weirdos eh.
- Seventh Tree
- Black Cherry
- Supernature
- Felt Mountain
- Tales of Us
- Silver Eye
- Head First
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