Felt Mountain

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Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp's studio album

Publication
(s)

September 11, 2000

admission

September 1999 - February 2000

Label (s) Mute

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Trip-hop , synthpop

Title (number)

9

running time

39:32

production

Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory

chronology
- Felt Mountain Black Cherry
(2003)

Felt Mountain is the debut album by British synthpop duo Goldfrapp . It was released on September 11, 2000 in Great Britain on the independent label Mute Records as a compact disc with the catalog number CDMUTE 264. It was not until almost a year later, on August 25, 2001, that it entered the British album charts , where it was on during its five-week period Chart history reached number 57. Utopia was previously released as a single and reached number 62 in the single charts in June 2001. In November 2001 the single Pilots was also able to place in the top 75.

Track list

All songs were written by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory .

# title Duration
1. "Lovely Head" 3:49
2. "Paper Bag" 4:05
3. "Human" 4:36
4th "Pilots" 4:29
5. "Deer Stop" 4:06
6th "Felt Mountain" 4:17
7th "Oompa Radar" 4:42
8th. "Utopia" 4:18
9. "Horse Tears" 5:10

style

The album is assigned to the genre trip-hop , but also has influences from pop of the 1960s , cabaret , folk and electronica . The song Human reminded by the string arrangements of Shirley Bassey's James Bond theme song Goldfinger . The album is also reminiscent of other works by the composer John Barry , who is best known for his film scores . Otherwise comparisons are made to the music of Björk and Portishead .

reception

Felt Mountain received rave reviews from critics. Allmusic rated the album as one of the most impressive debut albums of 2000. Laut.de described the album as a "giant throw". The reviewer wrote that seldom has a record impressed him so much when he first listened to it. He particularly praised the “almost brilliant” arrangements.

The e-zine Slant Magazine took Felt Mountain 2010 in the list of 100 best albums of the decade, in the opinion of the editorial team. The British music magazine Q named the album in its editorial best list for 2000. It is also recommended in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart history according to David Roberts (ed.): Guinness World Records - British Hit Singles and Albums , 2006 19 , ISBN 1904994105 , p. 230
  2. ↑ a b Best of the Aughts: Albums on slantmagazine.com
  3. ↑ a b Heather Phares: Review at Allmusic
  4. ↑ a b c Alexander Cordas: Melancholy beauty pressed onto a plate . Criticism at laut.de
  5. ↑ Review on nme.com
  6. ↑ Q magazine Recordings Of The Year on rocklistmusic.co.uk
  7. ↑ 1001 Albums You Must Hear - 2008 Edition on rocklistmusic.co.uk