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Claptone and Alison Goldfrapp “Digging Deeper”

Alison Goldfrapp has proven herself to be a versatile singer through her career in Goldfrapp but her voice never feels as fully natural as when it’s paired with synths and a strong beat. In this context, whether it’s on a record like Supernature or on this new collaboration with Claptone, her voice takes on contradictory qualities – airy yet rich, passive yet authoratative, full of warm humanity but robotic in its tonal precision. I love the way her voice conveys a distinct personality while also sounding like it could be a keyboard setting. “Digging Deeper” is a good old fashioned house song and so Goldfrapp runs with the opportunity to give voice to the ecstatic feel of the music. The lyrics are simple and repetitive, it’s all focused on one sentiment – suddenly her life has changed and she feels better, and she’s trying to go as far as she can with this emotional breakthrough. But you’d never need to pay attention to the lyrics to come to that conclusion, she really makes you feel that sensation of newfound freedom in the vocal.

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