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Album Reviews
Album Review: The Golden Filter – Voluspa (Brille)
By Marc Samuels | Published on Friday 4 June 2010
The Golden Filter are a New York duo whose debut album shows off their take on electronic disco, with American studio boffin Stephen Hindman constructing an impressive backdrop for the dreamy vocals of Aussie Penelope Trappe, whose chilled (if not quite glacial cool) singing is suggestive of a more European provenance, rendering the duo comparable to a less eccentric version of The Knife.
At its best – the insistent strings of ‘Dance Around The Fire’, the pulsing electro of ‘Solid Gold’, ‘Hide Me’ (like a blissed-out Little Boots) and the epic closing ‘Thunderbird’ – there is much to enjoy here for fans of the usual electro-pop suspects, whether that’s Erasure or Goldfrapp.
Whilst the tempo rarely changes and the lyrics are occasionally unimaginative, the Sarah Cracknell-meets-Giorgio-Moroder combination of fizzy electronics and cooing choruses makes this a rewarding debut. MS
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