Alison Goldfrapp
Born | May 13, 1966 |
Hometown | Enfield, United Kingdom |
Height | 5'2" (1.57m) |
Parents | Isabella Goldfrapp , Nick Goldfrapp |
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Goldfrapp conjure up swooningly cinematic songs from another time and place
- Maundy Thursday became mournful Thursday at London’s Royal Festival Hall as Goldfrapp played their debut album, Felt Mountain, in its entirety. Released in 2000, Felt Mountain mixed folk, 1960s pop, electronica and lush John Barry-style orchestrations to become a “chill-out” classic, selling 250,000 copies in the UK alone and earning a Mercury Prize nomination. Along with Air’s Moon Safari and Zero 7’s Simple Things, Felt Mountain became one of the defining albums of its genre.
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Alison Goldfrapp: 'On my first American driving holiday, people kept asking if I wanted to buy a gun'
The singer on night swims, magical rocks and American gun culture
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Press Mute: How one label made record covers into an art
Over 40 years, Mute Records has shaped our musical life, providing a home for distinctive artists ranging from global stars Depeche Mode to Slovenian provocateurs Laibach. Mute: A Visual Document tells the record company’s story from its foundation in 1978 as a home for synth pioneers to its current guise as an eclectic haven for idiosyncratic talents, among them Goldfrapp and New Order. Throughout, the label has remained a bastion for creative freedom, forging careers for the likes of Nick Ca
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Latitude festival review – bohemian stupor kept at bay by eclectic mix
If the Church of England is the Conservative party at prayer, Latitude is BBC Radio 4 at play. Latitude can tip into self-parody: the Sunday lunchtime crowd reclining on the grass to watch middle England and Classic FM icon Katherine Jenkins being punted across a lake to trill Somewhere over the Rainbow and You’ll Never Walk Alone could be Henman Hill transposed to Suffolk.
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Album reviews: Bob Dylan - Triplicate, Rachael Yamagata - Tightrope Walker, Take That - Wonderland, and more
In a recent interview, Bob Dylan described the three discs of Triplicate, his latest batch of Great American Songbook standards, as being thematically interconnected. Occasionally, a more jocular standard like “How Deep Is The Ocean” or “These Foolish Things” lightens the mood.
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Goldfrapp at the Roundhouse, London, gig review: Audience is whipped into a disco-glam frenzy
There is always something thrilling about seeing artists reinvigorated by reconnecting with what they do best.
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