Silver Eye
Goldfrapp have tended to zig-zag between dynamic electronica and sparser, folkier sounds with every release, but their seventh album successfully absorbs both styles. “Systemagic,” a pounding throwback to 2005’s *Supernature*, and the metronomic disco of “Everything Is Never Enough” plug the duo back into the mains. However, *Silver Eye*’s central passage of sedate, spare electro is warmed by soul and intimacy typical of their more pastoral moments, not least on the pleading “Beast That Never Was.”
On their first album in four years, Goldfrapp synthesize all their many sounds and modes to get at the core of their musical identity. They find a beautiful, poppy, platonic ideal.
On their first album in four years, Goldfrapp synthesize all their many sounds and modes to get at the core of their musical identity. They find a beautiful, poppy, platonic ideal.
No two Pile albums are alike, and that’s what makes hitting play on a new one so exciting. Those first few notes open a door to a new world, one that could only be created by frontman Rick Maguire. With Pile, Maguire is fearless, willing to take country and bluegrass riffs and twist them around noisy post-hardcore and…
No two Pile albums are alike, and that’s what makes hitting play on a new one so exciting. Those first few notes open a door to a new world, one that could only be created by frontman Rick Maguire. With Pile, Maguire is fearless, willing to take country and bluegrass riffs and twist them around noisy post-hardcore and…
British synthsters Goldfrapp are back with their seventh studio album Silver Eye, a collection of tracks that feel like a return to the duo'...
British synthsters Goldfrapp are back with their seventh studio album Silver Eye, a collection of tracks that feel like a return to the duo'...
It's hard to figure out the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, known simply as Goldfrapp. It's also hard not to like them.
It's hard to figure out the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, known simply as Goldfrapp. It's also hard not to like them.
Seventeen years after their debut, and eight albums into their career, a definite pattern has emerged in the Goldfrapp oeuvre. A kind of yin versus yang,
Seventeen years after their debut, and eight albums into their career, a definite pattern has emerged in the Goldfrapp oeuvre. A kind of yin versus yang,
Metamorphosis is a major theme on 'Silver Eye,' but Goldfrapp doesn’t seem to have done much of it themselves.
Metamorphosis is a major theme on 'Silver Eye,' but Goldfrapp doesn’t seem to have done much of it themselves.
'Silver Eye' by Goldfrapp, album review by Owen Maxwell. The full-length comes out on April 1st via Mute records. Goldfrapp, plays April 24 in Philadelphia.
'Silver Eye' by Goldfrapp, album review by Owen Maxwell. The full-length comes out on April 1st via Mute records. Goldfrapp, plays April 24 in Philadelphia.
Their first few years saw a series of radical transformations, but as the duo return to synthpop, another big shift – and adventure – is overdue
Their first few years saw a series of radical transformations, but as the duo return to synthpop, another big shift – and adventure – is overdue
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye review: Silver Eye is an engrossing, synthesizer-heavy concoction of the duo’s previous work distilled into a pure element only they could create.
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye review: Silver Eye is an engrossing, synthesizer-heavy concoction of the duo’s previous work distilled into a pure element only they could create.
The electro duo’s seventh album is awash dazzling melodies, otherworldly oddness and impeccable production
The electro duo’s seventh album is awash dazzling melodies, otherworldly oddness and impeccable production