ICONIC: Alison Goldfrapp

Written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, ‘Seventh Tree’ is the follow up to 2005’s critically-acclaimed ‘Supernature’ album. Recorded at their own studio deep in the English countryside, Goldfrapp continue to surprise and delight with each new album, adeptly body-swerving both stereotypes and imitators alike.

If ‘Supernature was airbrushed in bold strokes of glitterball glamour, ‘Seventh Tree’ is its sensual counterpoint. Where its predecessor came cocooned in style and sex, ‘Seventh Tree’ emerges gilded in the butterfly colours of an English surrealism shared from Lear to Lennon. It shimmers and shines with the warmth of a hazy summer, an electric whirlpool of sound over which Alison's glistening voice soars. Goldfrapp are widely acknowledged as modern musical treasures – amongst their most creative and imaginative contemporaries they present albums, live shows and imagery in a self-created, ambitious and consistently uncompromising way. Alison Goldfrapp has become a modern-day icon, providing musical and visual inspiration for countless other artists.

Goldfrapp also have a very real beating heart – and it is this rhythm that reverberates throughout the new set of powerful songs on ‘Seventh Tree’.
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