The blood creeps where it cannot go. With her debut (2000) Alison Goldfrapp and her band surprised the world with music that redefined fragile. But little girls are often naughty and want to party, so the CDs that followed were more suitable for wild electro parties than for musings. Partying girls naturally age and with old age comes wisdom and often a return to the roots of consciousness. It goes
… without saying that this story leads to the fact that this also applied to Goldfrapp. For two years she worked on the most narrative, cinematographic and intimate CD to date. A CD that cuts the soul harder than all her previous work. The song titles bear the first name of a character, except one. Those characters experience all kinds of adventures where the feeling is put to the test. All this is sung with the beautiful, clear voice of Alison Goldfrapp who is more about crying than laughing. Tales Of Us is Goldfrapp's redefinition of melancholy. (AD)more
