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Head First, Mute, ****

You need rocket-powered boots to keep up with Alison Goldfrapp. One minute she's the ice queen of chillout, next she's a synthpop siren or a spaced-out earth mother. Goldfrapp was lauded for going back to her chill-out roots on Seventh Tree, but secretly we want her to don the batwing sleeves and make like a robo-slut from the 1980s.