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#249. Goldfrapp Lovely Head (2000)
from the album Felt Mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITi6uat0BuQ

Key lyric: Why cant this be killing you?

Trip hop just might be the coolest genre on earth, and few showcase this better than Goldfrapps Lovely Head. After a Western-influenced whistling intro, James Bond-style verses are punctuated by an increasingly frantic synthesizer. Few songs feel so confrontational while maintaining such class. At the heart of this is a bitter sense of longing, with lyrics suggesting violent desire. All of this adds up to an atmosphere that can only be described as suffocating this is a track I turn on whenever I want to feel overwhelmed. I cant help but imagine some neo-noir cyberpunk spy film every time I listen any song which hits me with such visceral and specific imagery is something special.

This is another song that succeeds by daring to try something different. In this case, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory were messing around with an old synthesizer. They connected her vocals where a guitar was supposed to go, resulting in that eerie sound. To then combine that with two very 60s styles results in something like few others, bridging the past to the future. Goldfrapp would tone down the intensity on their later hits, but this sound is so singular that I cant blame them.

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