Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention

[Ling-Ling]

Alison Goldfrapp (of the duo Goldfrapp obviously, lol) is gearing up to release her debut solo album The Love Invention on 5/12. Most of the production looks to be handled by Alison along with Richard X and James Greenwood. She's released a few visualizers already:

[Ling-Ling]

Damn, is there not a single Goldfrapp fan left?

I like this quite a bit! Another excellent pop/dance album release for 2023. Outside of Head First, I don't think Alison has ever sounded this loose and bright before. All of the uptempos work. "So Hard So Hot," "Gatto Gellato," "NeverStop," "Love Invention," "Digging Deeper Now" and "Fever (TITRT)" deliver. I really like the midtempo moments like "In Electric Blue" and "The Beat Divine." "Hotel (Suite 23)" is such a highlight, don't think Alison has ever served anything like that before. And "Subterfuge" and "SLoFLo" are nice slower vibey moments. Her vocals are as airy/ethereal as ever and the hooks/melodies really open up on repeated listens. Nice job on her first solo effort.

[Carlitoz]

I liked very much Goldfrapp back in 2000-2005. Out of curiosity I did a quick browse to the singles of this album. The last weeks I've been listening to the Jessie Ware album. What I heard of Alison sounded pretty much the same type of music and not bad, but didn't capture me the way Jessie's album did. I will for sure give a few listen to Alison's album and hope I end up liking it.

[Dammn Baby]

Album of the year. She did that. All of that. This is a love letter to Hi-NRG best served with a thick blunt.

[Ling-Ling]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9kmsaptPFB

Well dang, she didn't waste any time. New single coming July 24th.

[HEADOFTHEPACK]

Goldfrapp are absolutely my favorite band BUT her album... didn't blow me away. We'll see with this new stuff, but Goldfrapp are just so good that it suffers in comparison for me.