Amazon.co.uk Review: You might expect the debut album from a woman who has collaborated extensively with Tricky and Orbital to be both wondrous and strange--and you'd be right to. What you might not expect is quite the depth of Alison Goldfrapp's beguiling, distracting 21st-Century noir visions on Felt Mountain. She and her fellow composer Will Gregory can mix in Brechtian cabaret, classical instrumentation, left-of-field electronics, decadent Gainsbourg-style French pop and the odd piece of whistling on just one track ("Felt Mountain"). "Oompa Radar" almost reaches Tom Waits heights of infamy, the way familiar instruments come together in such a simultaneously comforting and alienating style. The baroque "Paper Bag", meanwhile, uncannily recalls Joe Meek's toytown visions of 1960's grandeur. All this, and a seductive vocal to die for. --Everett True
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Rating: - Enter a Total Relaxing Utopia!!!!
1. Lovely Head. 10/10
2. Paper Bag. 8/10
3. Human. 10/10
4. Pilots. 10/10
5. Deer Stop. 5/10*
6. Felt Mountain. 9/10
7. Oompa Radar. 9/10
8. Utopia. 10/10
9. Horse Tears 9/10
* OUCH!!! Totally PAINFUL!!!!
If you like "Supernature", "Black Cherry", and "Seventh Tree", have "Felt Montain". Obviously it's the weakest out of the 4, though really relaxing and entres you into a total state of calm.
OVERALL GRADE: 10/10
Rating: - A great debut....
Rating: 8/10
Best tracks: "Paper Bag", "Pilots", "Utopia", "Deer Stop".
A beautiful, beguiling debut, Felt Mountain is weird, atmospheric and sexy, full of cinematic, offbeat instrumentation, unusual lyrics and one hell of a winning hand in Alison Goldfrapp's gorgeous, sensual voice. Alison and multi-instrumentalist Will Gregory add lashings of delightful touches and quirks to proceedings, be they whale calls, whistling, Theremins, whip cracks, Hammond organs and much more. ... Read More
Rating: - Magical
I bought this album because i liked the Oh La La record so I bought supernature. I thought supernature was fantastic so I bought Black Cherry well imagin my suprise when I find out the Black Cherry is even beter than Supernature (if that was possible) so I had to have Felt mountain and well I Could not believe it completly different but utterly fantastic, you want to listen and listen.
If I had any complaint it would be that the album is TOO SHORT, She sings opera and I could listen to a ... Read More
Rating: - When they were great.
There are good albums, there are great albums and there are those very special albums that stop you in your tracks because you realise that you're hearing something unlike anything else. Such is Felt Mountain, the best debut album ever. So much style, so much class, so much imagination - dazzling. This is an album packed with promise - promise which, sadly, Goldfrapp have failed to live up to. It would seem that Felt Mountain is to be a magnificent one-off - but there's so much to love.
Rating: - Sultry, Demanding Exoticism
"Wilfully weird" and "intoxicating" are words you probably would not generally associate from two musicians from Wiltshire, but in Goldfrapp's case, it is a description of borderline proportions. Joining forces after showcasing their wares on other ventures most notably within the arenas of trip hop and chill out dance, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory ingratiated themselves onto the pop world with "Felt Mountain" in 2000 with little fanfare that soon turned into a critically-acclaimed storm. Cinematically ... Read More
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