Goldfrapp, Usher Hall, Edinburgh: Live Review

IT ALL changed after the break. For the previous hour Goldfrapp had glided effortlessly through an often beautiful but perhaps slightly decorous set mostly dedicated to a Covid-delayed celebration of the 20th anniversary of their debut album Felt Mountain. Synths, guitar, percussion and a string quartet (provided by Q Strings who were a shivery pleasure) combined to wrap Alison Goldfrapp’s vocals in a hazy musical atmosphere that was one-part ethereal sci-fi background music and five parts soundtrack to the best sixties spy movie you’ve never seen.

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