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Supernature

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 27 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 63 votes
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Album Info
Label: Mute
Release Date: 07 March 2006
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Electronic, Indie, Rock
Summary
This is the third album for the British electronica duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory.
Also By This Artist: Black Cherry Seventh Tree
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Playlouder
This is so good it makes us want to do one of those superlative deploying pull quote things that journalists often stick at the end of their reviews: this fantastic piece of work is already a strong contender for album of the year.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Supernature sounds brilliantly here and now. Less coldly perverse than Black Cherry, it's also a lot of fun. [Sep 2005, p.110]
Billboard
With the mesmerizing Alison Goldfrapp leading the way, a glam-rock fierceness reigns supreme throughout this stunning collection.
Read Full Review >Lost At Sea
As accomplished as Black Cherry was, Supernature completes the suspected evolution from the quasi-avant-garde stylings of old to intelligent, sophisticated pop music.
Read Full Review >Filter
Supernature will not assist you in unlocking life's great mysteries, but for a good bout of fashionable rutting, well... [#19, p.90]
Entertainment Weekly
Her lyrics bring a hint of sadness to the space-dusted disco tunes. [10 Mar 2006, p.68]
Under The Radar
Goldfrapp continue with their brand of polished, highly catchy pop music introduced on their previous effort. [#12, p.91]
The Guardian
In its sound and influences, this picks up where Black Cherry left off, but whereas that album smacked of corroded innocence, Supernature fizzes like spacedust on your tongue.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
"Supernature" is the rarest of records - one which arrives late in the life span of a genre but defines it so completely and perfectly that a full stop can be placed right there.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
Goldfrapp inject more than enough of the 21st century into what they do to avoid being thoughtless rip-off merchants.
Read Full Review >Blender
[A] near-flawless suite of deep, dark and powerfully sexy tracks. [Apr 2006, p.112]
All Music Guide
As delightfully stylish and immediate as Supernature is, it's still hard to escape the nagging feeling that Goldfrapp could make its ethereal sensuality and pop leanings into something even more compelling.
Read Full Review >Mojo
There is no great leap into the unknown here, but rather a fusion of the band's previous two records. [16 Jul 2005, p.50]
Magnet
Goldfrapp is the rare dance art-pop band that bleeds artistic integrity without looking back to the '80s for inspiration. [#71, p.98]
PopMatters
Although Supernature lacks the imagination of Felt Mountain and the saucy brilliance of Black Cherry, it doesn't pander to the pop crowd.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
Plenty of these tracks keep feeling like exercises: too thick and melodic to work like dance music, but with melodies that refuse to stick as satisfyingly as pop.
Read Full Review >Uncut
Black Cherry this ain't, then. As a companion piece to its genius predecessor, though, Supernature iis planty to be going on with. [Sep 2005, p.108]
musicOMH.com
It's a curious, rather than classic, record - with the hooks to make the leap to the mainstream, but with enough residual oddness to maintain Goldfrapp's air of mystery a while longer.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
A more ambitious, punchier take on that electro-pop retro fetishizing at which Brits excel. [Mar 2006, p.138]
Slant Magazine
Supernature picks up where its disco-pop predecessor left off, augmenting the remaining traces of Felt Mountain's ambience... with swathes of glam-rock and stabs of tinny new wave.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Toxic and delicious, Supernature will make you do bad things -- and like it.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
An air of pretentiousness definitely sits over Supernature, but this is a rather enjoyable work that surpasses most material of a similar nature.
Read Full Review >NOW Magazine
The super-synthetic ethos of the album starts to rub against your skin; the band's retro dance-music collage feels less like innovative referencing and more like flat pastiche, and the simplistic little-girl lyrics add nothing.
Read Full Review >Trouser Press
The songs aren't bad, but there’s a loss of personality in the grooves.
Read Full Review >Stylus Magazine
So the form of vaguely electroclash pop delivered with frighteningly robotic efficiency has been mastered, but the content itself is the problem.
Read Full Review >Spin
The beats are so simplistic that their minimalist repetition occasionally teeters over into redundancy.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 63 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
John O. gave it an8:
Goldfrapps 2nd album - "Black Cherry" was in stark contrast to their first - "Felt Mountain". This album - "Supernature" is a mix of both those ideas, done even better. Successfully melding at least two separate equally powerful ideas together is something that makes a really good artist. Swaying from a touchingly delicate siren soundtrack-dreamscape to quirky, bossy, robo-pop glam-stomp. A stunningly dramatic vocal performance carrying real passion & belief with touches of dry humour. Highly empathic, beautifully crafted music with real-time quirks backs each song exceptionally well. A classic album for Goldfrapp.
Dozirulf gave it a10:
Supernature is absolutely fantastic. Anyone who claims that Goldfrapp were trying to be commercial just for the sake of selling CDs doesn't realize that people can enjoy (and enjoy creating) more than just one or two styles of music. :P
Jeremy F gave it a5:
This album isn't bad, but it lacks the emotional aspects and artistic aspects, and, essentially, the creativity of their past two records. I wish they'd return to the Felt Mountain feel. Black Cherry was similar to this style, but it had enough emotion and creativity in the design and this just seems limp compared. If CD #4 is like Felt Mountain, I'll be unbelievably happy. If it's like Black Cherry I'll be fine. But, it might be in their best favor to invent a brand new feel to their music, like the gigantic leap they made from Felt Mountain to Black Cherry (even though Hairy Trees and possibly Forever sounded like they could have been on Felt Mountain. Utopia was synthy, and these are in the same vein as Utopia.) I want a change. Or a Felt-Mountain/Black-Cherry hybrid. But not this. Aside from about 2 or 3 great songs, a few good songs, and one or two "OK" songs, there's nothing to rave about.
Stephanie M gave it a10:
I love every song on this album. You don't see many artist's albums like this nowadays. I love working out to it, jamming to it in my car, or listening while I'm working. In a way it is unfortunate that Goldfrapp has not become mainstream with this album (Remember last Christmas when every Target commercial had a Goldfrapp song on it? It figures, they don't even sell any Goldfrapp CDs there.), but in a way, it's great that they are indie artists since they toured with SXSW a year ago. Keep up the great work!
Sonia gave it a9:
One of the best albums I have ever heard...completely timeless as I am still listening to it now.
Dennis S gave it a10:
Utterly Fantastic! Rugged and space bendingly musical.
Nathan Co gave it a10:
Supernature is a classy, glamorous and sexy album which you can tell has been well produced. Any track from the album could be a hit single.
