Alison Goldfrapp
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It’s the Talk Art Christmas special! We meet Alison Goldfrapp, the creative force behind some of the most captivating music of the past two and a half decades!!! We celebrate Alison’s new reinterpretation of David Bowie’s Heroes which she has just released with Lorne Balfe for The War Between The Land and The Sea soundtrack, the new TV series starting our very own Russell Tovey.
Having set a towering bar for synth-pop in the 21st century, Alison Goldfrapp– the magnetic British songwriter, vocalist, performer & producer – is recognised for approaching each iteration of her stellar career from an innovative new position. With the release of Alison's debut solo album The Love Invention — an electrifying dance-pop suite — her multi-faceted musicianship reaches a new peak. “It feels like a new time, and a new era,” Alison says decisively.
The momentum towards her journey into solo music was solidified back in 2021, when she was collabored with Röyksopp on the shimmering track “Impossible”. This led to Alison signing with legendary Skint Records and recording 'The Love Invention' which marks Alison’s reawakening as a dancefloor priestess, featuring an intoxicating showcase of the disco and house influences that have always been at the heart of her musical DNA.
Alison's previous seven albums with Goldfrapp were fuelled by an unfailing modernity & a sixth sense for sounds that were more timeless than any trend. The band's 1999 debut album 'Felt Mountain' was nominated for a Mercury Prize and over their career they produced 3 #1 US dance singles & received multiple Grammy nominations incl. Best Electronic/Dance Album. The multi-platinum selling band have won prestigious awards including 2 Ivor Novellos, ASCAP/PRS, Music Week, MTV Europe and Music Producers Guild award. They were also nominated for two BRITs and a Mercury.
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Alison’s new album FLUX is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, whatever you are in the world. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Russell Tovey. |
| 0:10.1 | And I'm Robert Dian. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Talkart. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to Talkart. |
| 0:13.2 | How are you today, Robert? |
| 0:15.4 | Today, Russell, I am feeling hyper real. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, and it's a word that I picked out of an early... No, it's one word. Hyper real. Oh, hyper real. Yeah, and it's a word that I picked out of an early, no, it's one word. |
| 0:23.7 | Hyper real. Oh, hyper real. Yeah, hyper real. Today I'm feeling hyper real. It's a word that today's |
| 0:30.2 | guest actually used when she was describing some of her early work. I think maybe it was the |
| 0:35.9 | second album, which was called Black Cherry, |
| 0:38.7 | which is dear to my heart. But I first discovered her work in the 90s when she did a song |
| 0:45.1 | with Tricky, and it was called Pumpkin. And it was my favorite track on this album called Maxing Quay. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, and there were three people that I loved from that. Tricky was obviously like a |
| 0:54.4 | big inspiration to me, the musician and rapper and writer, and then Martin Topley Bird and today's |
| 1:00.0 | guest, because her voice, it was like, I'd never heard anything like her voice at that time. And it |
| 1:04.8 | was so otherworldly and hyper real in a way. It was like, I always feel like today's guest's work |
| 1:10.7 | is like one step |
| 1:12.0 | removed from reality and it becomes this kind of other place to escape into. Her early work |
| 1:19.1 | as a band, which was called Goldfraat, with Felt Mountain was a really great example of that |
| 1:24.6 | because it had all these different influences from like cabaret, kind of like almost like Weimar Cabaret and then Austrian, I don't know, |
| 1:32.1 | like mountain music and like Ennio Morricone and like classical sort of music and then and then |
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