Black Cherry Crystalline Green Train Black Cherry Tiptoe Deep Honey Hairy Trees Twist Strict Machine Forever Slippage

Lets face it, music has changed. Sure, this is pop, but it has its roots in trip hop, techno, trance, and disco. I’ve always been a sucker for anything that uses a ton of analog synths. This is analog heaven. No exaggeration. Through the whole lp, tones of wet resonant sounds, bandpass and highpass filters. Huge unison like ripping tones and bass lines. Below, the video for Tiptoe. I know, I know, It kind of reminds me of janet jackson or something. But past that, the chorus is like heaven. The strings and flanging, the super pretty vocals. Astonish me every time. This is a fan made video, not official, and the actress in this video is not goldfrapp. Tiptoe has the most kick ass amazing modular synth type noises in it. In fact this is what made me run out and buy a modular, I really wanted some of those zippery high pass and band pass sounds. No virus can do this, listen to the noises in the beginning. This is the modular sound I love.

I freaked out when i read that he recorded most of this lp with a motu audio device using logic. I think an old version of logic. But of course, they let someone else take it and mix it else where, probably on a high end mixing board with high end compressors. That is why this lp sounds so freaking phenomenal. Below, the video for Hairy Trees, This song is so pretty and angelic. I love it.

I’ve loved Goldfrapp even before she was doing her solo stuff. She did some guest vocals for a band I love to death called ORBITAL. She was on the middle of nowhere lp, an lp i listened to fanatically during the ttg production stage. She can sound swanky, erotic, heavenly, pretty, powerful, hypnotic and lucid. I think she beats out bjork even. That is saying something. Below is the video for twist, I love the growling bass lines. This has some huge sounds. Pure techno pop. I love it.

My favorite tracks on this lp are: Crystalline Green, Tiptoe, Deep Honey, Hairy Trees, Twist, Strict Machine. My favorite is Tiptoe. This is one of the best records I have picked up in years. Sure it’s a little dated now, it came out a few years ago. But seriously, I listen to this quite often still. I love the analog sounds and production. Very well done. Below is the video for Strict Machine, a song about a vibrator LOL. I’m not joking, it’s about some kind of sexual device, it has to be. Listen to the lyrics closely. who knows. Maybe it’s just my filthy brain, who knows. What I find even funnier is that this song was used by nintendo I think in the marketing of the nintendo DS or gameboy advanced. One of the two. LOL.

This is one of those lps that stays cool years and years after its prime. If you are just starting to get into goldfrapp, this is where you start. Stay far away from the new one “seventh tree”. The new one sounds like crosby, stills, nash and olivia newton john. YUCK. Start with black cherry. This is truly psychedelic. I give this a 5 out of 5. Buy now! Click Here to download Black Cherry by Goldfrapp DRM FREE 256 mp3. Click Here to Buy audio cd Black Cherry by Goldfrapp.