While their 2005 release, Supernature, was the band's attempt to ignite an electro-glam riot, their latest, Seventh Tree, is the morning after the night before – walking home in the crisp air, the sun casting its light over an older and wiser face coming to terms with its lost innocence. Or as Goldfrapp herself describes it as a muddle of 'psychedelic folk pop'.
It's an unlikely change of direction for the pair, but their new-found grown-up sound works, in fact it works very well indeed. Track Tangerine Dreams is a swirling mix of guitars and sounds which clearly reference early Pink Floyd.
First single A & E is dreamy, strumming guitars against a catchy melody, which is undercut by allusions to an overdose and stark images; "I'm in a backless dress in a pastel ward." Meanwhile 'Eat Yourself' begins with Alison's voice soaring Kate Bush-like over haunting strings as she expresses heartbreak; "How can I love you when I know you don't love me?".
However, there are weaker moments on the record; the ambient opener Clowns threatens to grind to a halt before its really even begun, and is easily outshone by songs Happiness, the pure pop of Caravan Girl and Cologne Cerrone Houdini.
Ultimately Goldfrapp succeed in crafting a complex, convincing and genuine sound on Seventh Tree. But the fundamental elements of every Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory produced-album are here; dreamy vocals, pop hooks, dark lyrics and bubbling synths.

And yet somehow they are transformed, as the pair take the core elements of folk instrumentation and psychedelia and turn them back in upon their own universe, creating an album of startling and compelling pop music.