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| Artist: Goldfrapp
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 176
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
EAN: 5099951830021
ASIN: B000ZN2582
Release Date: February 25, 2008
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 Finally a good mix of styles January 23, 2008
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Heard this thing as a download on a friend's IPOD. We ordered the hard copy as soon as we heard it. It's a good expanded style of songwriting that takes in "Felt Mountain" and their more glam experiments. Good work MUTE for leaking this ahead of its release to create a buzz for the album. To all record execs, learn from this.....a download is available, and we're still BUYING the CD. Is that clear enough for you?
Release better music and people will buy it; here endeth the lesson.
Seventh Heaven! January 8, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have read quite a few reviews saying this album is bad and having a go at Goldfrapp for 'changing style' but I have to disagree!
On first listen this album is very easy to listen to and it features some amazing tracks. After a few listens I was hooked and now it is one of my all time favourites.
Goldfrapp's fourth album challenges even the loyalist of fans January 6, 2008
44 out of 57 found this review helpful
Everyone who is a loyal fan of Goldfrapp knows there was never going to be Supernature part two and thankfully Seventh tree is its delicated counterpoint in pure, innocent and melodic in oppose to the glam rock sound that floods the likes of Ooh La La and Ride a white horse. The simplicity of Seventh tree proves effective, yet like Black Cherry and Supernature the songs are layered and contain texture. Reading recent reviews it comes to my attention people have described this album as acoustic, it couldn't be more opposite, 70s Moog synths layered with spilling piano forms and orchestral brilliance and Alisons vocals cascading beautifully sounding warmer and challenged.
CLOWNS/ An amazing introduction to the album, unrecognisable lyrics, the looped synth and melodic whirlpool of operatic vocals is an ethereal way to start the album.
LITTLE BIRD/ On a first listen it replicates a Beatles track from their famous Sgt Peppers album, a simple track, with the beautifully sung 'July, July, July' chours it plunges into a finishing crescendo of an epic finish with raw percussion and echoed pianos.
HAPPINESS/ The melodic upbeat track focusing on spirituality, it proves that Goldfrapp do have an ounce of happiness and its jump along chorus and electro riffs are a quirky assualt on this emotional track.
ROAD TO SOMEWHERE/ Filmic and epic, a violin strikes through the verses that are chanting about journeys and discovery before a hault and the chorus climbs through with reverbs on the synthesisers Alisons voice proving effortlessly intense.
EAT YOURSELF/The underrated track, mellow and melancholic, with an acoustic riff so delicate its provokes the coldest of listeners, with its sad yet optimistic chorus its a softly sung track about loneliness.
SOME PEOPLE/ The strong emotive ballad with unusual lyrics 'Some people, ask how old i am', its lead by a piano played on a simple chord but with intensity and effects used to louden its power. The construction of this track reflects Alisons vocal range and Will's passion for film scores, it has a euphoric chorus and a beautiful ending.
A and E/ One of the most amazing singles Goldfrapp has ever created and it will still be a personal song of loneliness and love for years to come. Amazingly written and a close attention to melody, it shows the bands interest in capturing a melody more than a soundscape or a sexual metaphor. A&E has a psychedllic feel to it a cheerful Velvet Underground or a more calmer Bonnie Tyler, it is a power ballad that people may frown upon, but this can be seen as such a intelligently written song that Goldfrapp has ever made.
COLOGNE,CERRONE,HOUDINI/ It takes for the chorus to kick in for this song to come into its own, but when the three words are sung it loops in orchestral beauty and like 'Some People' its epic and provides the most interesting title on the album.
CARAVAN GIRL/ Its like Little Bird but uptempo and sung much more happily, it begins with seventies sounding synthesiser before launcing into a drum and piano comibnation with Alisons childlike vocals about a fictional great escape. It has many vocal effects including whistling and layered synthesisers.
MONSTER LOVE/ A heartfelt track, with beautiful words and Alisons flawless vocals, it finishes the album calmly but interestingly with a melodic chorus and electronic pulses before the choruse floods in its heart stopping power 'Everything comes around' it shows the album off leaving us with a narrative that is the genius 'Seventh tree'
Seventh tree is an amazing album by Goldfrapp critics that are of this album don't see how Goldfrapp turned out, they have always been inspired by seventies sounds and vintage synths. This album has more emphasis on melodies in oppose to image, an organic enemy of supernature, it focuses on the folk influences and the grand filmic influence the band shares and their imagery proves idiosyncratic and interesting. Supernature 2 will never happen and Seventh tree is in our hands to love.
goldfrapp 7th tree January 3, 2008
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
Well what can i say here!!! the album is nothing like the last 2 that got them into the charts..its a bit like their very 1st album but something that has the hooks and sound that will appeal to the teenage fans as well as the older one's! This sound is more indie and after they did the cover of the ordinary boys song i think they have ventured more into that direction and away from the glam rock euro sound !! A & E is so catchy
and caravan girl and all the others are ok to but they are my fav 2 just now! im sure 7th tree will grow on me the more i play it as did the 1st two albums goldfrapp gave us... this album was a risk and one im sure they wont regret taking!!
Back to brilliance January 2, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Having now heard most of the tracks a few times I am so glad Alison & Will have moved away from the glam 70's retro of Supernature, which was my least favourite of the 3 albums previous to this.
It is refreshing to see they have been brave enough not to stick to a tried and tested recipe(which may well have kept the fans of Supernature happy), but instead taken a different musical direction yet again. It has elements of Felt Mountain but also has its own uniqueness.
Like all great albums it has to be listened to a few times to get the full enjoyment, but I for one am sure it is destined for greatness.
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