Track Listing

1. Lovely Head
2. Paper Bag
3. Human
4. Pilots
5. Deer Stop
6. Felt Mountain
7. Oompa Radar
8. Utopia
9. Horse Tears

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11489 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-19
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
You might expect the debut album from a woman who has collaborated extensively with Tricky and Orbital to be both wondrous and strange--and you'd be right to. What you might not expect is the depth of Alison Goldfrapp's beguiling, distracting 21st-century noir visions on Felt Mountain. She and her fellow composer Will Gregory can mix in Brechtian cabaret; classical instrumentation; left-of-field electronics; decadent, Gainsbourg-style French pop; and the odd piece of whistling on just one track ("Felt Mountain"). "Oompa Radar" almost reaches Tom Waits heights of infamy, the way familiar instruments come together in such a simultaneously comforting and alienating style. The baroque "Paper Bag," meanwhile, uncannily recalls Joe Meek's toy-town visions of 1960s grandeur. All this and a seductive vocal to die for. --Everett True

Customer Reviews

Sui generis!
This album is incredibly unique, almost like a genre of its own. I'm unsuccessfully looking for other pieces of music that gives the same mood for years. Even if you don't like it, you should hear it once in your life.

Cinematic mastery
Felt Mountain is such a gorgeous slice of cinematic beauty. The atmosphere that is conjured up by the entire work is one of ethereal elsewhere. Enough people here have commented and tried to define it; suffice to say, it is a gem in a million that withstands eternal listening!

An alternate soundtrack for Moulin Rouge
This album conjures to mind a maniacal circus, complete with death-defying stunts, twisted romance, and insane clowns. Mostly this works well. Just don't listen to it alone in your closet on a stormy night.