{"id":640,"date":"2010-08-11T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=640"},"modified":"2010-08-11T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:49:44","slug":"goldfrapp-head-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/goldfrapp-head-first\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLDFRAPP + Head First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Head-First-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-641\" title=\"Head-First-M2-Review-MarApr2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Head-First-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\" alt=\"Head First\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Head-First-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Head-First-M2-Review-MarApr2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>G<\/strong><strong>OLDFRAPP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Head First<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Mute]<\/p>\n<p>Eight years into their career, the British synth-pop duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory took a brief detour from the dancefloor for 2008\u2019s acoustic-leaning <em>Seventh Tree<\/em>, followed by the score for the 2009 John Lennon biopic <em>Nowhere Boy<\/em>. With <em>Head First<\/em>, they return to the buoyant beats of their highly accessible electronica. \u201cI\u2019m feeling alive again,\u201d Goldfrapp sings on \u201cAlive.\u201d That relentless affirmation soaks through every track, from the cheery revenge anthem \u201cRocket\u201d to the gentler \u201cShiny and Warm.\u201d Synthesizers lend a surreal quality to the sound on the aptly named \u201cDreaming\u201d as well as the stunning lyric-less \u201cVoicething,\u201d a compelling demonstration of how Goldfrapp\u2019s percussive vocals can keep even the most swirling compositions crisp. The nine-track album is compact, but it\u2019s jam-packed with enough energetic rhythms and hooky melodies to inspire the laziest listener to get up and dance. \u2013 KD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLDFRAPP Head First [Mute] Eight years into their career, the British synth-pop duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory took a brief detour from the dancefloor for 2008\u2019s acoustic-leaning Seventh Tree, followed by the score for the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. With Head First, they return to the buoyant beats of their highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,300,301,271,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}