Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree - 2008

I'm going to stop saying "here's another good album" as it can now be taken as a given that it wouldn't be featured if it wasn't, actually, it wouldn't be featured unless it's an exemplar.
Think this is my first of 2008 and what a way to start. As with Tears for Fears, and their album "Seeds of Love" before them, this is Goldfrapp's "Sargent Pepper's.." ie it's now that the duo, for they are Alison Goldfrapp and the shy retiring Will Gregory, evince a total mastery of their art. Not in a showoffy how clever are we way, but in that of consummate professionals. Beautiful broad (expensive) synth and orchestral pads back Alison's amazing voice: part Kate; part Madge; even part Kylie; yet wrapped in a unique package and given what I can only describe as that 1940's filmstar thing (a kindof catch at the top of the throat diction). Not as inventive and progressive as their 1st two recordings and ditching the glamslam camp of their last, an album very much designed with a live show in mind, the new cd has a newfound pastoral quality and I'd love to see it performed in a nice compact sit down auditorium, say Lighthouse in Poole - I can but hope.
web buy