Alison Goldfrapp - Flux

Indie Exclusive Acid Yellow Vinyl On her debut solo album, Love Invention, Alison Goldfrapp devoted herself to dance music. On Flux, she reminds listeners she's also pop royalty. Her second full-length is among the catchiest of her quarter-century career, and that's saying something. Moments like "Hey Hi Hello" and "Sound & Light" are everything that pop songs with the Goldfrapp name attached to them should be: The airy synths and high notes she hits on the chorus of the former call to mind Head First (not a surprise, since she also worked with Flux and Love Invention co-producer Richard X on that album), while the latter is a neo-'80s paradise steeped in the desire to be overcome by love and music (not necessarily in that order). Even Flux's most dance-oriented songs are sharper and shorter than Love Invention's excursions, with the dangerous curves of "Reveberotic"'s warping synths and "Strange Things Happen"'s transformation of the dancefloor into a swirling galaxy providing two