GOLDFRAPP

As she prepares to drop her seventh album, Silver Eye, the enigmatic ALISON GOLDFRAPP chats to Attitude

WORDS: CLIFF JOANNOU

INTERVIEW

ONE OF THE UK’S FINEST ELECTRONIC OUTFITS IS BACK with a new album that encapsulates the evolution of their sound in one addictive collection. Dancing effortlessly between digitised, bass-fuelled stompers and floating ethereal moments, the new album is a reminder of the enduring cool of Goldfrapp, aka Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory.

Four years since the release of their sixth album, Alison is ready for Silver Eye to take flight. “I like that feeling when it goes out into the world and it’s not yours any more, it’s everyone else’s. It lives and breathes. You’re holding on to it for that long without knowing where and how it exists. I like it becoming everyone else’s property.”

This time Alison has been even more hands-on with the project, shooting the accompanying artwork herself. “Music to me is very much a visual experience,” she says as we look through a selection of photos shot on the black sands and rocky cliffs of Fuerteventura, which was also the location of the video for the album’s first single, Anymore.

Without question, Goldfrapp are all set to continue their journey through a musical landscape that is distinctly their own.

The track Become the One on the new album is about transitioning…

That was one of the ones I wanted to put out as a single. It’s interesting, it’s not specifically about that at all but the idea of transitioning and Channel 4’s My Transsexual Summer Camp was a springboard for the record. That girl on there was so inspiring; just being that articulate and that in touch with how you feel and how you want to express yourself at such a young age. I know somebody who has a little boy who wanted to be a girl for years and went to therapy and then decided not to transition.