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Love For Laurel and her red, red hair......
gorgeous! It's the image used on the Lowry page for Alison's curated exhibition but it just feels so perfect for a visual version of Laurel......

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What are you listening to now?
Not resisted, just etched away to drop onto once this initial Tales-ness passes!

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Premiere of 'Tales of us' at Manchester Int Festival, July 17/18 2013
The other moment I have burnt-in from MIF is the look on your face, Tweety, as if even the tiniest bit more pleasure would make you explode with delight. That was lovely to see so clearly on another fans face.

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Premiere of 'Tales of us' at Manchester Int Festival, July 17/18 2013
Whenever Laurel starts playing I can't help thinking about the red spotlight and dramatic pose - that's so burnt into my memory from those two nights.....

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Love For Laurel and her red, red hair......
In my head, this is Laurel for me:- http://www.thelowry.com/Images/Exhibitions/Brochure45/GoldfrappCurator/Micro_GFPAC_Artboard_4_copy_2.jpg That look says everything, there's a world behind those eyes that now realises that real life has pan…

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Television....
I watched 'Blackout' on the TV last night, that and the Panorma episode concerning mental illness and police custody didn't make for the most cheerful of viewings. Nonetheless I found 'Blackout' compelling enough to stay tun…

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Mercury Music Prize 2013
It's just so random. Can't really get with awards, music is so subjective. So many of these have already done their great albums why nominate them now. Their first breakthroughs deserved the credit. Most of these don't need any award…

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Thea - the elusive
In the live set it could be an ideal bridge between styles & eras that could make other TOU tracks slide in more easily. I love the fact it was kept back from Manchester though as it give the album it's own unique thing, as Lee will do for …

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What are you listening to now?
Still TOU. Just TOU. Not feeling any chance of burning out yet so happily letting it play on....and on.....and on.......

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TOU Press Reviews
It really amazes me how some reviewers' text and ratings don't match up. Any well written review worth the time to read it should never need a 'score' shoe-horned onto the bottom. If the positive and negative points are expre…

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Alvar
I have a small part of Alvar on an infinite-loop earworm today. It's obviously been buried very deep in a very short space of time! It's driving me mad but in a lovely way @-)

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Hey everyone, I'm new here!
Welcome - you've picked a great time to join - lots of happy people around. Have fun :)

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Goldfrapp Live in NYC September 10th, 2013.
Yeah, Tales Of You will be the order of the day for us!

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Yep, Laura - I should be pacing myself too but it's not happening. I actually had two other cds arrive on Monday and they're still in their shrink wrap. Oops.

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What are you listening to now?
...i'll have to give TOU you time. The 'love fest' on here is spooking me out. Used to such negativity feel a bit weird. :-) Yeah, this sudden 'people agreeing with each other' thing is enough to give this place a bad nam…

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Tales of Us - Lyrics
The one thing this signals for me is a real return to the craft of Alison's lyrics. You only have to look at the number of footers and sigs where people pull out favourite little fragments from past eras and I think there are a number more than…

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What are you listening to now?
I'm sat at work with TOU in my headphones, sipping my miso and feeling a million miles away from the desk in front of me. That's when I know an album is really working for me - I don't conciously zone out but just get taken there in…

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Simone
It's like everything else on this album - meticulous. She hits the final words to Simone and then the music just breaks down, cold and detatched, as if to signal the drop of her head and turning away.

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Alvar
It's most direct allusion to her time in Iceland and the line "I want to swim your silk black skin to the floor" might well be one of the most enigmatic and beautiful she's ever written. The way it drifts into the spliced and tr…

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Simone
The lyrics in this one cut like a cold, cold knife. "You are the younger me in his arms" is such a simple yet devastating line of rebuff, accusation and resignation and to finish with her telling Simone how she'd given her life and l…

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Love For Laurel and her red, red hair......
Her lower register has always been glorious but this takes it to a new level. Absolutely. It's not just another tone of voice, but in this context a whole other voice entirely. Fits the mood of her story perfectly - the world weary realisati…

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Love For Laurel and her red, red hair......
Uh oh, Carpy's lovelorn for Laurel. Dangerous ground, Carpy. She needs protecting, obviously. She's making all the wrong choices for all the wrong reasons and little does she know of the consequences to come........

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Thea - the elusive
I must admit I was a bit worried about the idea of a change of pace in the middle of such a focussed album but it works, and works well. After a few listens it fits very naturally and becomes subsumed into the whole.

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
Unexpectedly for me, mine's probably Laurel. Alison really plays that part and then some!

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TOU 24 Bits WAVs and MP3s are now Live for Download
Also, apparently you can't upload album artwork for WAV files in iTunes? I didn't know that. It's not an iTunes thing, it's a WAV thing - the WAV is a simple waveform stored in it's most basic way. There's a format hea…

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Television....
Catching up with the first two Junior Masterchef Australia episodes. Those kids are like 10 or 12 or whatever and they're making roulades, frittatas and sponge cakes from a mystery box challenge like they were born into a mixing bowl! This is …

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Television....
SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS! ...very good! Saw that at the cinema on a biiiiig sound system (pun intended) and it was surprisingly moving for a concert doc. Cracking stuff.

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
and one hand to me it sounds nothing like previous Goldfrapp yet very distinctly Goldfrapp at the same time if that is possible? Makes total sense. For all the mentions of FM and 7T (by even the band themselves) it really isn't like either o…

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Show Us Your Tales!
My vinyl, sat on my desk at work complete with the free vinyl bag I got when I bought it!

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Wow, we got spammed
Deleted and killed off!

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