With her debut solo album, the singer has ditched the brainy precision pop for a sound aimed squarely at the dancefloor
It is fair to say Alison Goldfrapp has a complicated relationship with fame. In 2000, around the time of Felt Mountain, her and musical partner Will Gregory’s bewitching debut album as Goldfrapp, she returned home from a full day of interviews “crying and thinking: ‘What the fuck.’ No one had ever told us what an interview might entail,” she recalls now.
Later, as the duo’s success ramped up with 2005’s Grammy-nominated, million-selling opus Supernature – an album whose sultry, glam-adjacent electropop would influence Madonna and Kylie – journalists would often highlight the disparity between the playful, jumpsuit-sporting Alison Goldfrapp: The Popstar, and the quieter, more dressed-down offstage reality.
