Felt Mountain

Felt Mountain is the title of the debut album of British Synthpopduos Goldfrapp. It was released on 11 September 2000 in the UK at independent label Mute Records as a compact disc with the catalog number CDMUTE 264 until almost a year later, on 25 August 2001, it climbed into the British album charts, where it five weeks during his chart History 57th reached. As a single previously Utopia had been decoupled, which reached number 62 in 2001 in the singles charts in June. In November 2001, the single release Pilots could also place in the top 75.

Title list

All songs were written by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory.

Style

The album will be assigned to the trip-hop genre, but also includes influences from the pop of the 1960s, cabaret, folk and electronica on. The song Human reminded by the string arrangements on Shirley Bassey's James Bond theme song Goldfinger. Transfers to other works by the well-known primarily for his film music composer John Barry remembers the album. Comparisons are otherwise drawn to the music of Björk and Portishead.

Reception

Felt Mountain was highly praised by the critics. Allmusic rated the album as one of the most impressive debut albums of the year 2000. Laut.de described the album as a "huge success". The reviewer wrote, rarely a plate it was so impressed on first listen. He particularly praised the " almost brilliant " arrangements.

The e-zine Slant Magazine named Felt Mountain 2010 in the list of top 100 albums of the decade, according to the editors' opinion on. The British music magazine Q named the album in its editorial of Fame in 2000. It is also in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die recommended.