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Whistle Stopper - Seventh Tree (Deluxe Edition)
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724596938225
Label: Mute U.S.
Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mute U.S.
Release Date: 2008-02-26
Studio: Mute U.S.
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Summary: I'll be more specific later, but..... WOW
Comment: I've listened to this CD over and over... I can't stop. It's pure perfection as far as I am concerned. It's the best CD I've heard in quite some time. So, bought it in San Francisco and listened to it there. Just now put it into my car CD rotation. I need more time to provide a respectable review, but I had to submit my five star review to help contribute to the overall rating for this CD. Upon the first few listens, I was immediately reminded of Cocteau Twins... that seems like a very kind comparison!! I'm not too familiar with older Goldfrapp. I am not one that is a fan of the two CDs between Felt Mountain and Seventh Tree, not because I don't like the music, I just haven't had the opportunity to listen closely. I am listening closely to Seventh Tree. I really love it... enough to write this rather pitiful review. I guess sometimes great music leaves one speechless. This CD is Joyous and I love it!
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Summary: Inspiring
Comment: The perfect CD to listen to after a long day at work. Currently, my favorite album. All I can say is BEAUTIFUL work! Congrats!
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Summary: In A Land Not Too Far From Felt Mountain
Comment: It starts out with just Alison and a guitar accompaniment, slowly adding strings, then bass as it comes into full flower. Near the end, bird sounds and delicate but full harmonies enrich "Clowns" even more. It's the first track we experience and it is simply delicious. It's also one of my favorites from this album. "Little Bird" begins with a sublime keyboard melody and also becomes musically fuller as it progresses. Alison's voice sounds a bit older on this cut which matches the slightly melancholy tune. If it weren't for the totally organic-sounding addition of a psychedelic arrangement and drums near the end, "Little Bird" wouldn't have sounded out of place on "Felt Mountain". This is where the influences of "Black Cherry" and "Supernature" begin. "Happiness" is done as a bit of Beatlesque march/anthem that wouldn't have been out of place on "Supernature". Swooshing synthesizers, acoustic guitar and layers of Alison's vocals color the sweet "Road To Somewhere". Will Gregory's contributions to this album are not to be dismissed. His playing is inventive and tasteful as always. "Eat Yourself" is a folksy piece, just beautiful with a sad undercurrent that really touches me despite the absurd (though great) title. Although "Some People" has its charms, it sounds like an outtake from "Black Cherry". It's gorgeous anyway, with its swells of sound, a nice ebb and flow.
One of Goldfrapp's most joyous songs is "A&E". This song gets me high and is probably my favorite of their entire catalog. It doesn't sound like anything from their previous discs and in that we find them evolving as artists. "Cologne Cerrone Houdini" is one of the songs on "Seventh Tree" along with "Clowns" and "Eat Yourself" that come closest to "Felt Mountain". Like "A&E", "Caravan Girl" and the closing "Monster Love" are also different sounding pieces for Goldfrapp. All in all, only "Felt Mountain" is better than this album to these ears and this is a very close second. I also loved "Cherry" and "Supernature" but if you're looking for more glam and more beats, you won't find them here. I would encourage you to get the deluxe version of "Tree" as it comes with a beautiful (and odd) poster of Alison and a marvelous little handwritten lyric book. The artful postcards and the DVD that contains a short film and a video are pretty cool too.
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Summary: Alison, the genius.
Comment: I seem to be one of the few that thinks that Felt Mountain was a beautiful album and Seventh Tree is just a step up from that album. Both just take me to a different world. Agreed thats it's not the Goldfrapp that we are used to as in Black Cherry or Supernature, but her voice just takes us there, no matter where that "there" is.
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Summary: Happiness, how did you get to be
Comment: This album represents a dramatic rethink for Goldfrapp: out go the stomping glitter beats and whip-crack synthesisers, in comes "psychedelic folk". Most of the material on Seventh Tree focuses more on subtle, slow-moving ambience. Some more up-tempos would have been nice, but Seventh Tree still makes for good post-party chill- out music with style.
This Deluxe Edition comes with a DVD, some postcards and a little notebook with the lyrics. Great presentation.
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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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