First off, it is very hard to take seriously a band with a name sounding like coffee drinks. My girlfriend has been asking me to write sometimes about music that she finds good, so she gave me this record. I am sorry it sounds like a bad TV show theme on song one 'Rocket'. I am half waiting to see a private detective come out around the corner of my room while it is playing with his name appearing under him, which would be actually quite cool if it happened I think.
The second track is called 'Believer' and has some promising Kraftwerk (yes!) sounds to it until the singer starts to sing. She sounds like a white version of Paula Abdul (I am sorry if Paula Abdul is white: it's hard to tell and we watch American Idol on my girlfriends' black and white TV). Some of the chorus of this song is kind of nice like if I were to be shopping. Honestly though I'm mostly bored here. Song three (really it seems like I've been listening for a long time already) is like a song by Billy Joel for that funny show about the guys that dressed as girls to get there flat! That show was so good when I was little. If this song were the theme to it though I probably wouldn't have liked it as good.
The next song is called 'Dreaming' and I'm dreaming of changing the CD! Haha. It's funny because the music starts out very German and turns quickly into a car commercial, but maybe that's the point. Some bands with girls can do this better (Portishead, Everything Has the Girl) but something is missing in the Goldfrapp: it's too latte!
'I Wanna Life' is the same sound as 'I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight' from the 1980's. In fact most of this record is in the 80's. She even says 'too much, too little, too late' like the song from the 80's, and now that I think about it, I think I'm going to go '86' these files and listen to some Motörhead just to heal my ears!
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