Traditionally, solo albums can afford an artist the opportunity to explore previously uncharted sonic or lyrical terrain. In Alison Goldfrapp’s case, however, the electronic duo that bears her surname has mined such a rich, diverse palette over the last two-plus decades—from trip-hop to synth-pop to folk—that a solo venture seems like little more than a chance to make music with people who aren’t Will Gregory.
The Love Invention was birthed during the pandemic, when the singer says she was forced to create music more independently than she had in years. She ultimately tapped Richard X, who co-produced Goldfrapp’s 2010 single “Alive,” and Ghost Culture’s James Greenwood to bring her vision to life, though the album doesn’t stray too far from Goldfrapp’s synth-pop roots.
“Fever (This Is the Real Thing)” is sleek and undulating—and markedly more sophisticated than the Paul Woolford piano-house remix...
The Love Invention was birthed during the pandemic, when the singer says she was forced to create music more independently than she had in years. She ultimately tapped Richard X, who co-produced Goldfrapp’s 2010 single “Alive,” and Ghost Culture’s James Greenwood to bring her vision to life, though the album doesn’t stray too far from Goldfrapp’s synth-pop roots.
“Fever (This Is the Real Thing)” is sleek and undulating—and markedly more sophisticated than the Paul Woolford piano-house remix...
- 5/8/2023
- by Sal Cinquemani
- Slant Magazine
Alison Goldfrapp has recorded her first official solo album, The Love Invention. The Goldfrapp singer’s solo debut drops May 12th via Skint/BMG Music, and as a preview, her new song “So Hard So Hot” is out now.
Goldfrapp — the person, not the band — has fronted the eponymous synth-pop duo with Will Gregory since 1999, but The Love Invention marks the first full-length the artist has put out on her own. Still, that doesn’t mean the album is without collaborators: Richard X, James Greenwood, and Toby Scott all appear on the LP’s credits.
“So Hard So Hot” mixes disco vibes and a more contemporary, bass-driven sound. “Do you know, do you know, do you know how stars are made?” Goldfrapp sings on the track. “Yeah you know, yeah you know, yeah you know how we radiate.” It comes with a psychedelic music video directed by Mat Maitland, which you can watch below.
Goldfrapp — the person, not the band — has fronted the eponymous synth-pop duo with Will Gregory since 1999, but The Love Invention marks the first full-length the artist has put out on her own. Still, that doesn’t mean the album is without collaborators: Richard X, James Greenwood, and Toby Scott all appear on the LP’s credits.
“So Hard So Hot” mixes disco vibes and a more contemporary, bass-driven sound. “Do you know, do you know, do you know how stars are made?” Goldfrapp sings on the track. “Yeah you know, yeah you know, yeah you know how we radiate.” It comes with a psychedelic music video directed by Mat Maitland, which you can watch below.
- 3/16/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
BAFTA-winning Paul Wright’s archival exploration of the evolution of the use of British land, “Arcadia,” has been given a new lease of life thanks to the duo behind the film’s score. Five years after it first hit screens, Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory and Portishead’s Adrian Utley have turned the film’s vibrant music into a live show appropriately titled “Arcadia Live.” In the show, the film plays in the background as a nine-person band, including lauded singer Lisa Knapp plus Gregory and Utley themselves, performs the eclectic collection of songs, which goes from classic folk to techno.
Why present the film live now? “We both feel the relevance of the film has become more acute because of what has happened in the years since,” says Gregory, when sitting down with Variety to discuss the live show after its international premiere at IDFA. “We’ve got evermore peril to do with climate and,...
Why present the film live now? “We both feel the relevance of the film has become more acute because of what has happened in the years since,” says Gregory, when sitting down with Variety to discuss the live show after its international premiere at IDFA. “We’ve got evermore peril to do with climate and,...
- 11/18/2022
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Antonio Banderas, Edgar Wright, Jean Michel Jarre, Chance the Rapper and even the Italian prime minister were among the people paying to legendary film composer Ennio Morricone early Monday, who died following complications from a fall. He was 91.
Over seven decades, Morricone contributed to over 520 scores including, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Cinema Paradiso” and “Once Upon a Time in the West.” Morricone won the Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Academy Award in 2016 for “The Hateful Eight.”
Director Edgar Wright led the tributes on social media saying, “Where to even begin with iconic composer Ennio Morricone? He could make an average movie into a must-see, a good movie into art, and a great movie into legend. He hasn’t been off my stereo my entire life. What a legacy of work he leaves behind. Rip.”
Where to even begin with iconic composer Ennio Morricone?...
Over seven decades, Morricone contributed to over 520 scores including, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Cinema Paradiso” and “Once Upon a Time in the West.” Morricone won the Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Academy Award in 2016 for “The Hateful Eight.”
Director Edgar Wright led the tributes on social media saying, “Where to even begin with iconic composer Ennio Morricone? He could make an average movie into a must-see, a good movie into art, and a great movie into legend. He hasn’t been off my stereo my entire life. What a legacy of work he leaves behind. Rip.”
Where to even begin with iconic composer Ennio Morricone?...
- 7/6/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan, who is no stranger to collaborative projects, has joined up with a new collective called Humanist for a moody new song called “Shock Collar.”
In the video, he pleads that he “never lied,” in his signature croon, singing amid swirling guitars and electro drums as strobes flash red and blue around him. The song will appear on the first album by Humanist, due out February 21st.
Humanist is a new project by Rob Marshall, who plays guitar with Exit Calm and previously wrote two albums...
In the video, he pleads that he “never lied,” in his signature croon, singing amid swirling guitars and electro drums as strobes flash red and blue around him. The song will appear on the first album by Humanist, due out February 21st.
Humanist is a new project by Rob Marshall, who plays guitar with Exit Calm and previously wrote two albums...
- 1/13/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Long before a “Class of 2006” banner pops up in “Looking for Alaska,” it’s pretty clear what year the new Hulu show’s characters are living through. Some of that comes from the on-screen MySpace references or the relative state of DVD menu design, but most of that mid-’00s feel comes from the show’s song choices.
As has become standard for shows created by the producing team of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the “Looking for Alaska” soundtrack is packed with a mix of cozy radio favorites — no chronicle of 2005 would be complete without The White Stripes and 50 Cent and Gorillaz and Jet and J-Kwon and The Killers — and below-the-surface cuts that might just end up linked with some of the series’ most emotional moments.
In addition to some of the most iconic tracks of the day, there are also a handful of covers of some enduring recognizable favorites.
As has become standard for shows created by the producing team of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the “Looking for Alaska” soundtrack is packed with a mix of cozy radio favorites — no chronicle of 2005 would be complete without The White Stripes and 50 Cent and Gorillaz and Jet and J-Kwon and The Killers — and below-the-surface cuts that might just end up linked with some of the series’ most emotional moments.
In addition to some of the most iconic tracks of the day, there are also a handful of covers of some enduring recognizable favorites.
- 10/20/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Paul Wright’s flickering montage is an absorbing odyssey through bucolic calm, bizarre eccentricity and what appears to be real-life horror paganism
A fever dream of the British countryside has been curated here by film-maker Paul Wright, whose last movie was the 2013 fiction feature For Those in Peril. This is a bit different: a rhapsody-montage of archive clips, flickering evocations of bucolic calm, bizarre eccentricity and what looks like real-life folk horror paganism, coming at you with Pathe newsreel voices and spoken arias of agony and ecstasy, all compiled into a mysterious, extended hallucination. Finding a Brexit significance is something that can be done with almost any film nowadays. But this does seem a suitable case for treatment.
This non-narrative work is fascinating, though it’s the kind of assemblage that could so easily look complacent and inert. After all, digital editing technology has made cutting together slo-mo images under...
A fever dream of the British countryside has been curated here by film-maker Paul Wright, whose last movie was the 2013 fiction feature For Those in Peril. This is a bit different: a rhapsody-montage of archive clips, flickering evocations of bucolic calm, bizarre eccentricity and what looks like real-life folk horror paganism, coming at you with Pathe newsreel voices and spoken arias of agony and ecstasy, all compiled into a mysterious, extended hallucination. Finding a Brexit significance is something that can be done with almost any film nowadays. But this does seem a suitable case for treatment.
This non-narrative work is fascinating, though it’s the kind of assemblage that could so easily look complacent and inert. After all, digital editing technology has made cutting together slo-mo images under...
- 6/22/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The 2014 GLAAD Media Awards nominations have been announced, celebrating TV shows, movies, music artists and journalism that puts forth fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
The awards are given our in two ceremonies, April 12 in Los Angeles and May 3 in New York. The nominees are as follows:
Outstanding Drama Series
"The Fosters"
"Grey's Anatomy"
"Orphan Black"
"Pretty Little Liars"
"Shameless"
Outstanding Comedy Series
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
"Glee"
"Modern Family"
"Orange is the New Black"
"Please Like Me"
Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular Lgbt character)
"Bride and Prejudice," "The Soul Man"
"Larp and the Real Girl," "Supernatural"
"Secret Lives," "Drop Dead Diva"
"Snow Angels," "Elementary"
"There's the Door," "Necessary Roughness"
Outstanding TV Movie or Miniseries
"Behind the Candelabra"
"In the Flesh"
Outstanding Documentary
"Bridegroom"
"Call Me Kuchu"
"God Loves Uganda"
"The New Black"
"Valentine Road...
The awards are given our in two ceremonies, April 12 in Los Angeles and May 3 in New York. The nominees are as follows:
Outstanding Drama Series
"The Fosters"
"Grey's Anatomy"
"Orphan Black"
"Pretty Little Liars"
"Shameless"
Outstanding Comedy Series
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
"Glee"
"Modern Family"
"Orange is the New Black"
"Please Like Me"
Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular Lgbt character)
"Bride and Prejudice," "The Soul Man"
"Larp and the Real Girl," "Supernatural"
"Secret Lives," "Drop Dead Diva"
"Snow Angels," "Elementary"
"There's the Door," "Necessary Roughness"
Outstanding TV Movie or Miniseries
"Behind the Candelabra"
"In the Flesh"
Outstanding Documentary
"Bridegroom"
"Call Me Kuchu"
"God Loves Uganda"
"The New Black"
"Valentine Road...
- 1/30/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Tags: Morning BrewKeira KnightleyChloe Grace MoretzIMDbMichelle ChamuelEllen DeGeneresLauren GrahamGoldfrappKirsten VangsnessDatesPortlandiaLaggiesLynn Shelton
Good morning!
Michelle Chamuel has made it into the finals of The Voice. I'm not surprised, I'm just delighted! Let's look at Michelle behind-the-scenes, when the competition isn't so stressful.
I was so happy to see Paige and Emily doing lesbian things on Pretty Little Liars last night. Looks like we'll see more of Lindsey Shaw next week too.
Speaking of Pll, the book series' author Sara Shepherd did a Q&A at Goodreads where she talked about Emily's queerness.
I think it's great that gay and lesbian teens, especially, can see a character on TV who struggled with her sexuality, dealt with family backlash, and has now gotten through it and is living her life. I also know that the Pll staff did a video for the It Gets Better campaign for Lgbt kids and bullying. When I started writing the books,...
Good morning!
Michelle Chamuel has made it into the finals of The Voice. I'm not surprised, I'm just delighted! Let's look at Michelle behind-the-scenes, when the competition isn't so stressful.
I was so happy to see Paige and Emily doing lesbian things on Pretty Little Liars last night. Looks like we'll see more of Lindsey Shaw next week too.
Speaking of Pll, the book series' author Sara Shepherd did a Q&A at Goodreads where she talked about Emily's queerness.
I think it's great that gay and lesbian teens, especially, can see a character on TV who struggled with her sexuality, dealt with family backlash, and has now gotten through it and is living her life. I also know that the Pll staff did a video for the It Gets Better campaign for Lgbt kids and bullying. When I started writing the books,...
- 6/12/2013
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
Lee Bridgman - So You Think You Can Dance
Lee Bridgman
Age: 21
From: Plymouth
Dancer and model who’s looking for the next challenge
Lee began performing at a young age, leaving his small village in Devon for London’s Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts at just 12 years old. Since graduating, his career as a dancer and model has rocketed, taking him from the West End stage, to the catwalk at London Fashion week, to the pages of British Vogue, all in under two years.
Fresh from Italia Conti, Lee was snapped up by the West End show Wicked, where he danced in the ensemble for a year.
Dancing on screen is nothing new for Lee as he’s appeared in a Goldfrapp music video and has danced alongside Cher Lloyd and One Direction on X Factor.
The 21 year old is eager to prove his versatility and to try different genres,...
Lee Bridgman
Age: 21
From: Plymouth
Dancer and model who’s looking for the next challenge
Lee began performing at a young age, leaving his small village in Devon for London’s Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts at just 12 years old. Since graduating, his career as a dancer and model has rocketed, taking him from the West End stage, to the catwalk at London Fashion week, to the pages of British Vogue, all in under two years.
Fresh from Italia Conti, Lee was snapped up by the West End show Wicked, where he danced in the ensemble for a year.
Dancing on screen is nothing new for Lee as he’s appeared in a Goldfrapp music video and has danced alongside Cher Lloyd and One Direction on X Factor.
The 21 year old is eager to prove his versatility and to try different genres,...
- 4/9/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy, "Slow Night, So Long," featured some emotional story lines, with a soundtrack that definitely set the mood throughout (see our review).
Below is a list of the Grey's Anatomy music from this week ...
Calahan - "Bleeding" Imani Coppola - "Celebrate" Goldfrapp - "Alive" Vassy - "Run To The Sun" Amateur Night - "Immune" The National - "Runaway" Free & Easy - "Open" Ali Dee - "She's Goin' Down" Calahan - "Feels Like Rain" Mackintosh Braun - "Made For Us" Anya Marina - "You Are Invisible"...
Below is a list of the Grey's Anatomy music from this week ...
Calahan - "Bleeding" Imani Coppola - "Celebrate" Goldfrapp - "Alive" Vassy - "Run To The Sun" Amateur Night - "Immune" The National - "Runaway" Free & Easy - "Open" Ali Dee - "She's Goin' Down" Calahan - "Feels Like Rain" Mackintosh Braun - "Made For Us" Anya Marina - "You Are Invisible"...
- 11/19/2010
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (Steve Marsi)
- TVfanatic
Jack Goes Boating
Directed by: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Amy Ryan, Daphne Rubin-Vega
Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Plot: An awkward limo driver (Hoffman) must learn to swim before he can go boating with a woman (Ryan) he met on a blind date. They are both friends with a couple (Ortiz, Rubin-Vega) whose marriage appears to be stuck on the rocks.
Who’S It For?: Fans of Hoffman’s moodier work, as they might be more familiar with the dry humor that he has explored in certain films like The Savages.
Expectations: Academy Award-winner Hoffman has shown a certain mastery for the on-screen performance. With this being film-director debut, I was curious to see how the versatile actor views the world, and if his own film would echo those made by others previously in the captain’s chair.
Scorecard (0-...
Directed by: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Amy Ryan, Daphne Rubin-Vega
Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Plot: An awkward limo driver (Hoffman) must learn to swim before he can go boating with a woman (Ryan) he met on a blind date. They are both friends with a couple (Ortiz, Rubin-Vega) whose marriage appears to be stuck on the rocks.
Who’S It For?: Fans of Hoffman’s moodier work, as they might be more familiar with the dry humor that he has explored in certain films like The Savages.
Expectations: Academy Award-winner Hoffman has shown a certain mastery for the on-screen performance. With this being film-director debut, I was curious to see how the versatile actor views the world, and if his own film would echo those made by others previously in the captain’s chair.
Scorecard (0-...
- 9/24/2010
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
EDINBURGH -- A working-class tomboy on a moped with no motor meets a young patrician beauty on horseback in the Yorkshire countryside. They begin an unlikely friendship and it is no surprise, given the film's title, that it becomes something a little more than that. But what could so easily have been a predictable and tired rehash of youthful Sapphic exploration turns out to be engagingly fresh not least because of the captivating performances of the two leads.
Boxoffice prospects are not huge but the picture should be well received on the festival and art house circuit and properly promoted could do well on television.
Press plays Mona, a sparky and quizzical young woman whose fate appears to be tied inextricably to her brother Phil, a petty crook whose born-again Christianity has made him empty their pub of booze and turn it into a place for prayer meetings. Mona's mood is not improved by being dumped by a crude older boyfriend.
When she tips off her moped in a country field and opens her eyes to find a beautiful girl peering down at her from atop a horse, she is immediately curious. Tamsin (Blunt) has the lazy hauteur of the carelessly rich and her invitation to Mona to visit her at her parents' swanky home is more like an order.
When Mona dares to accept, she finds a world foreign to her existence. Tamsin plays the cello, listens to Edith Piaf and drinks red wine. She speaks of Nietzsche and Freud and worships the memory of her equally glamorous older sister who she says died of anorexia. With her parents away, Tamsin urges Mona to stay. They talk and talk and swear eternal allegiance as friends.
That leads to tentative explorations of their sexuality, although these scenes are handled delicately and without the taint of voyeurism. Tamsin at first appears stronger than Mona, and they embark on adventures of revenge against Tamsin's cheating father and Mona's faithless boyfriend.
Meanwhile, Mona's brother is building a giant cross that he plans to erect on a hill overlooking their village. He cautions Mona about behavior he views as reckless, but falls prey to the confidence of Tamsin who easily reveals the frailty of his conversion.
Pawlikowski is working on ambitious themes having to do not only with the passage of youth but also the conflicts of faith and fantasy. Mona's world is hard but she dreams of beautiful things like love and fidelity. Tamsin, well educated and spoiled, spins a fanciful image of faux nihilism and doom. Brother Phil's attempts to fight his own violent nature are under constant threat. As the three begin to pull in separation directions, this summer of love comes apart at the seams.
Some of the metaphors are a bit too literal but the director largely succeeds with his story and the surprises are convincing. Best of all the film has a terrific sense of humor and the young actresses exploit it delightfully. The scenes in which Mona reprises the devil's voice from The Exorcist are priceless.
MY SUMMER OF LOVE
ContentFilm
BBC Films and the Film Consortium with Baker Street present in association with U.K. Film Council a Take Partnerships production of an Apocalypso Picture
Credits:
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Screenplay: Pawlikowski, Michael Wynne, based on the novel by Helen Cross
Producers: Tanya Seghatchian, Christopher Collins
Executive producers: David M. Thompson, Chris Auty, Emma Hayter
Director of photography: Ryszard Lenczewski
Production designer: John Stevenson
Costume designer: Julian Day
Music: Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory
Editor: David Charap.
Cast:
Mona: Nathalie Press
Tamsin: Emily Blunt
Phil: Paddy Considine
Ricky: Dean Andrews.
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 86 minutes...
EDINBURGH -- A working-class tomboy on a moped with no motor meets a young patrician beauty on horseback in the Yorkshire countryside. They begin an unlikely friendship and it is no surprise, given the film's title, that it becomes something a little more than that. But what could so easily have been a predictable and tired rehash of youthful Sapphic exploration turns out to be engagingly fresh not least because of the captivating performances of the two leads.
Boxoffice prospects are not huge but the picture should be well received on the festival and art house circuit and properly promoted could do well on television.
Press plays Mona, a sparky and quizzical young woman whose fate appears to be tied inextricably to her brother Phil, a petty crook whose born-again Christianity has made him empty their pub of booze and turn it into a place for prayer meetings. Mona's mood is not improved by being dumped by a crude older boyfriend.
When she tips off her moped in a country field and opens her eyes to find a beautiful girl peering down at her from atop a horse, she is immediately curious. Tamsin (Blunt) has the lazy hauteur of the carelessly rich and her invitation to Mona to visit her at her parents' swanky home is more like an order.
When Mona dares to accept, she finds a world foreign to her existence. Tamsin plays the cello, listens to Edith Piaf and drinks red wine. She speaks of Nietzsche and Freud and worships the memory of her equally glamorous older sister who she says died of anorexia. With her parents away, Tamsin urges Mona to stay. They talk and talk and swear eternal allegiance as friends.
That leads to tentative explorations of their sexuality, although these scenes are handled delicately and without the taint of voyeurism. Tamsin at first appears stronger than Mona, and they embark on adventures of revenge against Tamsin's cheating father and Mona's faithless boyfriend.
Meanwhile, Mona's brother is building a giant cross that he plans to erect on a hill overlooking their village. He cautions Mona about behavior he views as reckless, but falls prey to the confidence of Tamsin who easily reveals the frailty of his conversion.
Pawlikowski is working on ambitious themes having to do not only with the passage of youth but also the conflicts of faith and fantasy. Mona's world is hard but she dreams of beautiful things like love and fidelity. Tamsin, well educated and spoiled, spins a fanciful image of faux nihilism and doom. Brother Phil's attempts to fight his own violent nature are under constant threat. As the three begin to pull in separation directions, this summer of love comes apart at the seams.
Some of the metaphors are a bit too literal but the director largely succeeds with his story and the surprises are convincing. Best of all the film has a terrific sense of humor and the young actresses exploit it delightfully. The scenes in which Mona reprises the devil's voice from The Exorcist are priceless.
MY SUMMER OF LOVE
ContentFilm
BBC Films and the Film Consortium with Baker Street present in association with U.K. Film Council a Take Partnerships production of an Apocalypso Picture
Credits:
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Screenplay: Pawlikowski, Michael Wynne, based on the novel by Helen Cross
Producers: Tanya Seghatchian, Christopher Collins
Executive producers: David M. Thompson, Chris Auty, Emma Hayter
Director of photography: Ryszard Lenczewski
Production designer: John Stevenson
Costume designer: Julian Day
Music: Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory
Editor: David Charap.
Cast:
Mona: Nathalie Press
Tamsin: Emily Blunt
Phil: Paddy Considine
Ricky: Dean Andrews.
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 86 minutes...
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