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Seventh Tree | 
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| Artist: Goldfrapp
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
Buy New: £4.87
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Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 193
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
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Clowns | | • | Little Bird | | • | Happiness | | • | Road To Somewhere | | • | Eat Yourself | | • | Some People | | • | A&E | | • | Cologne Cerrone Houdini | | • | Caravan Girl | | • | Monster Love |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Seventh Tree unveils an Alison Goldfrapp quite different to the one we saw on her career highpoint to date, 2005's Supernature. Whereas that album was grandiose, glammy, and almost aggressive in its brash, thrusting sexuality, Goldfrapp's fourth album is no less sensual, but rather more subtle in its approach. Recorded with longtime collaborator Will Gregory out in rural Somerset, Seventh Tree feels like an attempt to fuse the pagan folk of cult English horror classic The Wicker Man to a lush backdrop of woozy electronics and a restrained orchestral sweep reminiscent of '70s-era Serge Gainsbourg. In practise, this means much of Seventh Tree goes where earlier Gainsbourg disciples such as Air have gone before: chilled-out, soporific electronica with a light organic edge. Luckily, Goldfrapp remains a compelling enough figure to keep matters on the right side of ethereal: the gorgeous "Clowns" imagines the Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser guesting on some long-forgotten Nick Drake out-take, rustic folk with an all-but-indecipherable vocal and an undercurrent of desolation, while "A&E" shows Goldfrapp's pop urge has not deserted her, uplifting electronica with a warm, bucolic twist. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Warm honey and goosepimples February 29, 2008
G. Thomas (Canterbury UK)
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
I really should have trusted Goldfrapp more.
From the genius of Felt Mountain, via the gorgeous Black Cherry to the fantastically stompin' Supernature, they have never let me down.
I've seen them three different times and it's always superb. Their music and their videos always push at boundaries but there I was, having doubts about this album before I'd even heard it.
I guess it was a combination of my expectations and the almost ravenous reception by Radio One of "A&E". I think I kind-of turned off.
The seemingly superficial ballad style of A&E and a host of gushing emails from Jo Whiley's listeners immediately started me on the "sold out" train of thought.
Was I wrong?.. you bet. I guess listening on the workplace-radio didn't do "A&E" justice.
I subsequently heard 2 more tracks "Little Bird" and "Happiness" then saw a late night TV performance.
It's one of those moments in life when you're so glad to be wrong.
Part of what Goldfrapp have, over more pedestrian bands, is a willingness to change, adapt and experiment.
They still have the unique style you already love but it's here in a different form.
All the good things that make Goldfrapp Goldfrapp are there in Seventh Tree you just have to unwrap the new "packaging" and then you'll see it.
Seventh tree is still envelope-pushing, edgy, inspiring, warm, inviting, blissful and retains that glorious oddness that has always defined Goldfrapp for me. Listening to this feels like taking a shower in warm honey whilst having a violent attack of the goosepimples.
Another triumph for re-invention and yet another 5 gold stars for Alison & Will.
Terrific stuff.
Give it 5 listens........and you'll love it!! April 27, 2008
Lucy
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First listen.....disappointed. Just bland and nothingness.Elevator music.
Second listen....it's OK, but background music, nothing special.
Third listen.....it's quite good in parts, certain tracks stand out.
Fourth listen.....hey this is actually really good.
Fifth listen........wow this is amzing, my favourite album of Goldfrapps yet!
This album is a grower. I'm like the biggest Goldfrapp fan in the world yet the first couple of times I listened to it I really didn't like it at all, but have patience with it.......and you'll come to be amazed.
I just had it on in the background for a few listens while I was studying, or doing the house work.......then all of a sudden, bang....it just hit me.
It's beautiful, etheral,powerful.......lush. A stunning stunning album. Now I just can't get enough!!
An Instant Classic Album! February 23, 2008
Eddie Vegas (United Kingdom)
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
Like all great song writing musicians [Prince, for example], you need to keep re-inventing yourself to have a career that will last decades rather than a couple of albums. Goldfrapp, with Seventh Tree prove they are here for the long term and have produced an album that I can only describe as an instant classic!
Styles touch on early Roxy Music, Cocteau Twins, Joni Mitchell, Wendy & Lisa and even Marlene Dietrich/Bardot on Cologne Cerrone Houdini! But they take these influences, mix them up in a bowl of magic Goldfrapp soup and create something so extraordinary and fresh for 2008 that I just can't stop listening to it. [Thanks Alison and Will for giving us all a week to preview the album in full on myspace - great idea, and I'll be buying the album as soon as it's available].
The combination of Will Gregory's incredible chord structures and Alison Goldfrapp's haunting vocals is pure stardust and I'm so pleased they've given us another generous sprinkle.
Contains the best song ever written? February 24, 2008
Mr. R. P. Savage (Manchester, England)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
I love Goldfrapp. I loved their last album and I loved the one before that. Their best, however, was always the spine tingly debut 'Felt Mountain.' Whilst hey went off into the realms of glam disco on later releases, I always they were at their absolute best with the chilled out vibes that brought them to the dance.
Don't get me wrong, the direction they went after 'Felt' was fine. They were still better at what they did than most. i just think Alison's voice is so perfectly fit to a more relaxed background.
As I write this i have had the opener to their new album, 'Seventh Tree' (Clowns) on constant repeat. I have now listened to this tract 11 times in a row and still find it mesmorising with each subsequent listen. I have neve heard a track which moves me more than this absolute, set in stone classic. Ali's voice is just so haunting, so lush, so... perfect!
I heard that a big influence on the album was the classic 70's film 'The Wicker Man.' It was that exact film which i though of when I first put this record on. It is a fantastically dark, gothic film to which this album owes so much.
Pick up 'Becoming X' by the Sneaker Pimps and listen to track 11 (How Do) and you will get an idea what I mean. I could imagine Alison singing that song and doing it justice.
'Seventh Tree' is the best record I have heard this year and most probably better than anything I have heard for about the past 4-5 years. I can't name a duff track on it because there simply isn;t one (unlike the past couple of albums which have had several fillers on them.)
If you liked 'Felt' you will adore this. If you like chilled out, gothic, melodic music then you too will be sat wondering if you have EVER heard anything better than this.
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