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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.
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Q MagazineSupernature sounds brilliantly here and now. Less coldly perverse than Black Cherry, it's also a lot of fun. [Sep 2005, p.110]
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With the mesmerizing Alison Goldfrapp leading the way, a glam-rock fierceness reigns supreme throughout this stunning collection.
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As accomplished as Black Cherry was, Supernature completes the suspected evolution from the quasi-avant-garde stylings of old to intelligent, sophisticated pop music.
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FilterSupernature will not assist you in unlocking life's great mysteries, but for a good bout of fashionable rutting, well... [#19, p.90]
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Entertainment WeeklyHer lyrics bring a hint of sadness to the space-dusted disco tunes. [10 Mar 2006, p.68]
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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.
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MojoThere is no great leap into the unknown here, but rather a fusion of the band's previous two records. [16 Jul 2005, p.50]
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"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.
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Goldfrapp inject more than enough of the 21st century into what they do to avoid being thoughtless rip-off merchants.
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Under The RadarGoldfrapp continue with their brand of polished, highly catchy pop music introduced on their previous effort. [#12, p.91]
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Blender[A] near-flawless suite of deep, dark and powerfully sexy tracks. [Apr 2006, p.112]
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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.
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Supernature is their most radio-friendly work yet.
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MagnetGoldfrapp is the rare dance art-pop band that bleeds artistic integrity without looking back to the '80s for inspiration. [#71, p.98]
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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.
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UncutBlack 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]
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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.
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Although Supernature lacks the imagination of Felt Mountain and the saucy brilliance of Black Cherry, it doesn't pander to the pop crowd.
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Alternative PressA more ambitious, punchier take on that electro-pop retro fetishizing at which Brits excel. [Mar 2006, p.138]
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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.
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An air of pretentiousness definitely sits over Supernature, but this is a rather enjoyable work that surpasses most material of a similar nature.
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Toxic and delicious, Supernature will make you do bad things -- and like it.
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The songs aren't bad, but there’s a loss of personality in the grooves.
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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.
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So the form of vaguely electroclash pop delivered with frighteningly robotic efficiency has been mastered, but the content itself is the problem.
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The beats are so simplistic that their minimalist repetition occasionally teeters over into redundancy.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 69 out of 79
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Mixed: 4 out of 79
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Negative: 6 out of 79
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DozirulfOct 23, 2007
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Dec 8, 2013
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Nov 3, 2010