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| Artist: Goldfrapp
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £18.99
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 16887
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5.1 x 0.7
EAN: 5099951830229
ASIN: B000ZN258C
Release Date: February 25, 2008
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 Great Album March 7, 2008
I have all the Goldfrapp albums and this is one of my favourites. I don't think it's anything like the others; certainly nothing like Black Cherry but just as good. I've had Seventh Tree in my car for 5 days now, playing it continuously and I'm still not bored by it. It's a beautiful album to listen to, a bit like sloshing about in a warm bath.
Eat Yourself March 7, 2008
If you loved Felt Mountain as much as I did then this is for you. Gone is the more recent electro sleaze replaced by a more considered sculpted sound.
Alison explores her vocal range to the full once again. She soars.
The deluxe CD box is worth the extra, if only for the delightful, hand drawn lyric book by Alison herself. The DVD is just Alison prancing about in shaky cam slow mo while we hear about - well, not much actually. You will play it only once. But never mind, this is essential for all us who need beauty in our lives.
seventh heaven of an album March 6, 2008
Cocteau Twins meet XTC meet Nick Drake meets Sandy Denny meets Syd Barratt meets Roy Wood. This album is a sensational celebration of individualism and musicianship. I melted into it on first hearing and it has conquered my soul. Buy it and drown in it.
 New Goldfrapp Shampoo (5/10) March 4, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had high expectations for `Seventh Tree` given some of the pre-release hype suggesting - falsely it turns out - that Goldfrapp had returned to the more ethereal landscapes of their first, and best, album `Felt Mountain`. There had also been alot made of Goldfrapp's musical magpieism - a trait only to my knowledge achieved with any credibility by Daid Bowie - as she ditched the glam-rock-cum-disco kitsch of `Supernature` in favour of pastoral folk and rustic imagery. Comparisons were made to Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man's `Out of Season` and to the perennially influential Wicker Man soundtrack. This falsehood - presumably a marketing ruse compounded by the retro cover imagery - has been perpetuated by music press and customers alike as if no-one has actually listened to the album.
In fact, `Seventh Tree` sounds very little like this, but continues where some of the more saccharine, airy balladry on `Supernature` left off, more Cafe Del Mar than Nick Drake. Also bandied about quite liberally is the word "ethereal" - another cliche of music journalism - and the Cocteau Twins have been mentioned. Yes, `Seventh Tree` all but abandons the stomping euro-pop of the last album, but otherworldly this is not, unless you consider Air or Morcheeba otherworldly. The sad fact is that where Goldfrapp stood out as an exceptional talent in the largely vacuous and sterile genres of trip hop and chill out, they have run out of the very ideas that set them apart from the rest. The result is more the mood of a shampoo advert than the creepy folk suggested by the marketing machine.
Whereas `Seventh Tree` starts brightly with the agreeably bucolic atmosphere of `Clowns', which has Alison doing a bluesy, decadent vocal in the mold of Beth Gibbons or - dare I say it - Amy Winehouse. The climax of `Little Bird' revolves around some typically monstrous, chiming synths from Will Gregory, but there are not enough rough edges on the rest of the record to satisfy fans of their darker, more experimental output. Thereafter, it's all Kate Bush without the eccentricity, innocuous and schmaltzy, suitably inoffensive even to pleasure fans of Norah Jones or Dido. It resigns itself to background music and barely put up a fight to work its way back into the consciousness. That career making music for shampoo adverts beckons.
Discovery anew March 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had always bypassed GF-mainly because of the covers-thinking they were yet another of the glossy glitter urban clubmeisters fronted by a superfemme doll. (i guess in some ways they are)
Im a little more solid state-but a friend showed me a preview of 7th Tree video, on Amazon, I think. And I was impressed.
I picked up the deluxe box and was thrilled to see it was made in the EU with attention to detail and quality, and the extras. Most stuff like this is done only half assed here in the US.
One thing is for sure, yes Allison is pretty, and yes she is sexy-but she has an entrancing personality that draws you in. She also seems to care about her fans. It took integrity to include a photo of Will in a 'no longer 30' photo. Allison can be any age she wishes. To sum it up, the music the extras gifts on 7th Tree are top form.
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