Sex, subversion, style, humour, songs: great pop music’s greatest components. GOLDFRAPP have always known it.

Through pioneering electronics, crystalline vocals, visual theatrics and glam-sex decadence, for their new offering Supernature, they’ve moved through the ambient shadows into the technicolor thrill that is the hallmark of classic British pop music. After Felt Mountain (2000), their glacial, Mercury Award-nominated debut, the second album--the Brit-nominated Black Cherry--was the benchmark of 2003. Here was the sound and vision of Art-Pop-Now; the crack of Marlene Dietrich’s stiletto on Donna Summer’s back, a thundering, sweat-lashed, discotronic soundscape which spawned remix requests from both Franz Ferdinand and Marilyn Manson. Its two euphoric, electro-stomp anthems, “Train” and “Strict Machine” (and their eye-lasing videos) were that year’s peak of adrenalised, class-pop cool.