100 favourite songs: #75: "Utopia" - Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp came along pretty early for me, and while I don’t think I’ve ever thought of them as one of my really favourite bands, the duo’s always had a place in my heart which it doesn’t share with anyone else. I could never decide which I liked best of Felt Mountain and Black Cherry, and when Supernature came along it made three Goldfrapp records which I couldn’t split in quality, but “Utopia” is definitely where it all started, and there’s something about it still, something in its cinematic, dramatic quality, in the whispers and mews of Alison Goldfrapp and the sheer electro-lushness of it all…and also for having provided me with one of those expressions of a concept which has gone straight into my working vocabulary (spoken and thought) — the idea of being wired to the world.