GOLDFRAPP - Supernature Review

When Alison Goldfrapp and her friend Will Gregory finally got round to working together on 'Felt Mountain' in 1999 it felt like a disappointment of sorts. After working with Orbital, Add N To X and Tricky, it felt like her own real debut was too in thrall to the kind of sultry female led trip hop acts of the mid to late 90s that were still weighing down every glass-topped table in suburban UK. ...full text It's OK Computer syndrome all over again. Just as that slightly disappointing album ended up reaping the rave reviews that rightfully belonged to the brilliant The Bends, so critics are falling over themselves to give Supernature the rabid praise that Black Cherry unfortunately failed to get at the time....full text With risible pretenders like The Bravery storming the charts and Kylie and Madonna both having dispatched their electro-pop albums some years ago, it might reasonably be imagined that - despite determined attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by the superfluous likes of Juliet - the genre is now dead in the water....full text