- Audio CD (Jan 12 2004)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: EMI Music Canada
- ASIN: B00004XSS2
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
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#22,592 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #48 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Chamber Pop
- #70 in Music > Dance & DJ > Trip-Hop
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Track Listings
| 1. Lovely Head |
| 2. Paper Bag |
| 3. Human |
| 4. Pilots |
| 5. Deer Stop |
| 6. Felt Mountain |
| 7. Oompa Radar |
| 8. Utopia |
| 9. Horse Tears |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
You might expect the debut album from a woman who has collaborated extensively with Tricky and Orbital to be both wondrous and strange--and you'd be right to. What you might not expect is the depth of Alison Goldfrapp's beguiling, distracting 21st-century noir visions on Felt Mountain. She and her fellow composer Will Gregory can mix in Brechtian cabaret; classical instrumentation; left-of-field electronics; decadent, Gainsbourg-style French pop; and the odd piece of whistling on just one track ("Felt Mountain"). "Oompa Radar" almost reaches Tom Waits heights of infamy from the way familiar instruments come together in such a simultaneously comforting and alienating style. The baroque "Paper Bag," meanwhile, uncannily recalls Joe Meek's toy-town visions of 1960s grandeur. All this and a seductive vocal to die for. --Everett True
Album Description
'Felt Mountain' Limited Edition contains the original album & a special 8 track bonus disc, housed in a Digipak. Tracklisting - 1, 'Pilots (On A Star)' 2, 'U.K. Girls' ('Let's Get Physical' Olivia Newton-John cover) 3, 'Lovely Head' - Miss World Mix 4, 'Utopia' - New Ears Mix 5, 'Human' - Calexico Vocal 6, 'Human' - Masseys Cro-Magnon Mix 7, 'Utopia'- Tom Middleton Cosmos Vocal 8, 'A Trip To Felt Mountain' - Visual Content. Mute Records.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
4.5 stars...float away, but beware of the undertow,
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This review is from: Felt Mountain (Audio CD)
It just takes one listen to Alison Goldfrapp's seductive voice to fall under her spell. It all sounds nice and comforting, but once you notice the lyrics of the songs and hear the unorthodox musical flourishes on Felt Mountain, you realise you're in for a slightly more twisted musical journey than you had expected.A spectacular combination of myriad styles, ranging from Shirley Bassey, John Barry, Bjork, Portishead, Angelo Badalamenti, Burt Bacharach, and Kurt Weill, Goldfrapp and composer Will Gregory have put together an album that sounds oddly familiar, yet highly original. When Goldfrapp starts singing the jazzy chorus to 'Human ("are you human/or a dog"), it sounds like a lounge act from another planet. Along with 'Human', the dark, sultry 'Lovely Head' ("Frankenstein would want your mind/your lovely head"), the bitter 'Paper Bag ("brown paper bag makes for a hat/when it rains on your head mate/cheers for that"), and the more conventional-sounding 'Pilots' kick off the record in fine fashion. However, the next three songs, the spacy, often indecipherable 'Deer Stop', the gentle, processed yodeling and dreamy scat singing on the title track, and the bizarre brass band flourishes on 'Oompa Radar' all take you into a musical twilight zone, where no musical influence, however odd, is safe. Felt Mountain's brief sidetrack into the realm of the extremely eccentric sets you up for the album's finest moment, the utterly beautiful, yet sinister 'Utopia'. Over a steady beat and lush instrumentation arranged by Gregory with operatic backing vocals, Goldfrapp sings "I forget who I am/when I'm with you/there's no reason/there's no sense" before gently intoning "fascist baby" in the chorus. Just when you think the song is about a lover's emotional dominance, Goldfrapp returns with stranger lines like "my dog needs new ears" and "I'm super brain/that's how they made me". The song is amazing, both in the way it sounds, and how hard it is to pin down thematically. Both Goldfrapp and Gregory shine equally bright on Felt Mountain. Gregory's musical arrangements have a definite cinematic quality to them as well sounding electronic (sans samples) while still emanating warmth. Goldfrapp's vocal talents are second to none; at times I thought wrongly that a theremin was used on the record, but it was in fact Goldfrapp's stunning voice. As she closes off the album in eerily gorgeous singsong-like "la la la"'s that slowly fade out, it's like seeing a beautiful girl run off giggling mischievously right after showing you something disturbing and grotesque. Felt Mountain overflows with unsettling beauty.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Work Backwards,
By A Customer
This review is from: Felt Mountain (Audio CD)
I really liked this CD. alot, but it's not as good as i expected. Supernature and Black Cherry are just wonderful. so if you happen to want to get into Goldfrapp don't work backwards or else this won't be appreciated for how good it really is.
4.0 out of 5 stars
My Utopia includes Goldfrapp,
By ital_m_24 (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Felt Mountain (Audio CD)
Alison's Goldfrapp's voice is just amazing. Nice collection of smooth, entrancing songs, just don't expect anything upbeat like the "Black Cherry" CD. Highlights for me include Lovely Head and Utopia (Lovely Head is featured in the film "My Summer of Love" and is where I was introduced to Goldfrapp). If you like more upbeat danceable tunes, go for their next CD (Black Cherry). This is an amazing CD to lounge back and enjoy.
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