Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself

"If you don't eat yourself you will explode instead."

Album: Seventh Tree [4th album]
Recorded: London, England & Somerset, England
Genre: Folk
Release: February 22nd 2008
Length: 4:07
Producer: Will Gregory
Vocals: Alison Goldfrapp [age 41]
Label: Mute Records

Official Audio


Acoustic Version

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Spotify: Over 2 million
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Credits

Instruments: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Bass, Electric Guitar, Choir

Contains samples from 'Folk and Other Moods Guitar' which can be found on the 1970 Mattel Optigan Program Disc.

Details

• The song came out of a jam with much of the scatted vocals improvised in a five minute session. Afterwards Alison Goldfrapp attempted to replace the scat with written lyrics but the group weren't happy with the result and kept the mostly wordless vocalisations instead.
• The crackling is from the sample on the Optigan. It has been purposefully left as is and creates a folksy, ye olde world feel to the track.

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