Silver Eye

Goldfrapp have tended to zig-zag between dynamic electronica and sparser, folkier sounds with every release, but their seventh album successfully absorbs both styles. “Systemagic”, a pounding throwback to 2005’s <i>Supernature</i>, and the metronomic disco of “Everything Is Never Enough” plug the duo back into the mains. However, <i>Silver Eye</i>’s central passage of sedate, spare electro is warmed by soul and intimacy typical of their more pastoral moments, not least on the pleading “Beast That Never Was”.