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| Artist: Goldfrapp
Label: Mute
Category: Music
List Price: £20.99
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 53518
Format: Cd+dvd
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 094633782624
EAN: 0094633782624
ASIN: B000ALVE4A
Release Date: August 22, 2005
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 Solid Electro-funk February 4, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Marking a real progression on from 'Felt Mountain' and then 'Black Cherry', Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory knock out a much more confident and consistently strong piece of work with 'Supernature'.
Hip-twitching beats, strong punchy basses, slinkly-sultry vocals and some strong, clean production all combine for a ride well worth the fee.
Stand out tracks, 'Ohh La La' (obviously), 'Number 1', 'Slide In' and 'Fly Me Away' (this for me is a gorgeous, cool, sulty, mesmeric nod in the direction of Kraftwerk's TEE, blended smoothly with Air's finest europop)
It's not all full-on full-tilt euro-plump however - 'You Never Know' and 'Let it Take You' throttle-back a bit, echoing back to 'Felt Mountain' - which you'll either like or not.
Bottom-line, if you liked the singles or 'Black Cherry', or any of Kraftwerk/Air/Timo Maas/Nathan Fake - buy this - you won't regret it - even if it is likely to be a fast-burning album.
 Inspirational and Just What I Need September 28, 2006
4 out of 18 found this review helpful
I work in a creative field and also do some creative projets on the side. To say that I draw inspiration from the music I listen to is nothing new, but upon hearing the meager snippets the previews allow of each song, I knew this album would help take me to places I needed to reach.
Within the last week my office creative work has literally come alive and reached new heights of satisfation thanks to songs like "Lovely to See U", both the original and mixed versions. These songs have a bold feeling, like a tiger waiting to pounce. They build and entice you along nicely and spring a wonderful crescendo of sound on you about two minutes into them and they take you on a wild ride till the very end.
Other songs, like "Koko" and "Let It Take You" help you rein in your more excited emotions and give a great break for relaxing and contemplating.
The entire album is infused with a breathy, sexy attitude, very fresh and original. At least, to this electronic addict. Favorite songs: all of them.
Very Glam Rock & T Rex'ish... July 25, 2006
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is a really good album.
Great to get an album where all the tracks are great, and not just the one hit from it.
Goldfrapp are to do the new James Bond theme. So they cant be that bad.
Very 70's influenced, glam rock and a lot of T Rex influences.
Great album worth buying. I have this on my MP3 along with, Oasis, steriophonics etc.... so fits in well with them.
Buy it you definately won't be dissappointed.
Good rather than great June 15, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
If this had been a debut album, or maybe an album by anyone other than Goldfrapp, "Supernature" would be very impressive. As this is in fact Goldfrapp's third album we could have been forgiven for expecting something absolutely spectacular though, and only a very generous reviewer would describe this as spectacular, having neither the eerie majesty of their debut "Felt Mountain" nor the experimental edge of the sublime "Black Cherry". And yet...there are some fabulous moments here! "Lovely 2 C U", "Ride A White Horse" and "Fly Me Away" are all near-perfect electro pop, while "Satin Chic" boasts a flamboyant glam stomp.
Rather than an attempt at mainstream success (as other reviewers have speculated), the truth is that "Supernature" is a good Goldfrapp album rather than a great one. Which is a shame, but hardly a disaster. Can't wait for the next one.
 An Album For The Uninitiated ... June 7, 2006
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
With the pop world currently languishing in a ditch of revisionism masquerading as honorary homage, you cannot help but admire the determined lack of interest Goldfrapp have with the rest of their pop constituents. Those who dared to listen to Alison Goldfrapp's voice wrapped lasciviously around Will Gregory's beats and arrangements on their first two releases, "Felt Mountain" and "Black Cherry", were not only witness to sinisterly erotic soundscapes with references to the classier end of the pop spectrum (Kraftwerk, Blondie, film score composer Ennio Morricone) but also a gleeful ribbing of the "Sex Sells" advertising of young nubile would-be pop stars and starlets by their record labels. By harkening back to the spirit of glam rock and disco in the late `70s via the advances of new-century electro, Goldfrapp produced music that confronted the listener with what sex and desire actually felt like as opposed to how it's perceived by a pre-teen vocalist.
It is with some disappointment then that their hotly-anticipated third effort, "Supernature", sees Goldfrapp step up the referentialism a little more and eschew the more daring aspects of their earlier work. Softer than "Black Cherry" and less dense than "Felt Mountain" with a slightly more mainstream sheen than both, "Supernature" sees Alison and Will rein in the extreme sonic environments of their previous LPs to create a pleasurable middle ground with varied success. In essence, this is Goldfrapp with all of the frills and flourishes kept to a minimum, with an especial non-reliance on the orchestral drama that imbued the earlier releases with such power. In its place is an obvious affection for the earlier days of glam rock (lead single "Ooh La La" certainly boasts a Marc Bolan-style quality) and a stripped down ambience that registers with music of a more slender elegance this time around. The elements of Goldfrapp are still there, but it's all been pared down to an easily digestible volume.
The first notable casualty of this overhaul is Alison herself, whose luminous vocal has nearly all-but-disappeared here. Fans of the orgasmic yodelling on "Cherry" and the baroque whistling of "Mountain" will at first be affronted by the jaded style she adopts here, but it isn't without its merits. "Let It Take U" could have easily been left off of "Mountain" and saved for this album with its demure vocal and tragic piano chords and solo violin. "Number 1" is the closest the album gets to perfect, with Alison's husky voice offset by a soaring melody line boasting one of the best key changes in recent memory. Other would-be greats include the outlandish Studio 54 fantasy, "Ride A White Horse", and "Lovely 2 C U", which positively drips with sarcasm. Yet in no way, shape or form is Alison's voice truly stretched to the kind of synaptic-jangling ferocity she's thrust on us before.
Also of note is the lack of sublime noise that populated earlier Goldfrapp efforts. The clean efficiency of the bass lines and melody lines and their not being blurred out by subtle programmings of blips and sound effects is a sign that both Alison and Will are certainly more confident in their songwriting skills, yet it only makes the songs seem indistinct from one another. Which is a shame as they are nearly all worthy of a listen, but so uninvolving as to have you forget them as soon as they've flown past your ears. However, the truth is that Goldfrapp fans shouldn't really complain, seeing as "Black Cherry" was such a radical departure from "Felt Mountain", and "Supernature" sort of follows suit. It may be samey and even at times sound like other stuff on the radio, but it's still classy enough to stand alone from the rest of the fame-hungry crowd. Just think of it as "Cherry Mountain For BBC Radio 2".
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