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Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings
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Positive: 37 out of 45
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Mixed: 6 out of 45
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Negative: 2 out of 45
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TrisMar 23, 2010This is the first Goldfrapp album I haven't enjoyed at all. Making a tribute to corny 80's pop music results only in more corny 80's music.
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Nov 3, 2010An amazing album, I love and have played some of the songs in this album way too much. I usually don't like pop sounding albums but Goldfrapp manages to make their sounds so original and well crafted I just can't help but to love them.
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JenS.Mar 26, 2010Fun, slick album.
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TomBApr 7, 2010Not their best, but still light years ahead of most of the comparable stuff out there!
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RonB.Mar 26, 2010
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AmosTMar 27, 2010Most people still don't get the sound yet... Back is the new forward?
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BradNMar 31, 2010
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JeanMMar 31, 2010to be honest, this album didn't live up to my own ridiculously high expectations, but still, it's a pop masterpiece.
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uptonkApr 12, 2010This year's guilty, guilty pleasure. Love every dirty, synthetic gesture.
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Sep 13, 2010Goldfrapp's 5th album is definitely amazing. From the head rocking "Rocket" to the soft, melodic instrumental "Voicething" , Goldfrapp once again releases an album that is not only worth buying, but worth keeping and listening to over and over again!
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Dec 18, 2016Goldfrapp didn't make a synthpop album because everybody else was doing so, they did it to show them how it's done.
It may lack the power of 'Supernature' and the beauty of 'Seventh Tree', but it doesn't lack in fun. It's a slickly produced retro-feeling record. It'll impress the older generation for it's nostalgia, and captivate the younger.
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Aug 10, 2011
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Jan 6, 2012
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Nov 13, 2013A wonderful synth album that only suffers for not being synth enough. There is a mellowness and lightness that could have been richer and deeper. Overall though it is quite strong. Download: Alive, Shiny and Warm, Rocket.
Awards & Rankings
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Head First, enjoyable though much of it is, is disappointingly determined to return the favour.
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Goldfrapp’s skill at adopting and fully embodying different styles is what makes them distinctive, not necessarily one signature sound. If the album seems somewhat slight, it’s purposefully so: Head First is a love letter to the frothy, fleeting, but very vital joys of pop music.
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At an economic 38 minutes and free of anything in the slightest bit terrible, you should welcome Head First like the first sun of spring, know it inside out by the time the band are slaying festival crowds mid-summer and possibly buying copies to give to close friends and family at Christmas.