Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
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Album Review
Release date: 25 February 2008
Goldfrapp
Seventh Tree
If you’re expecting any pretty feather boas, sparkly disco-balls or sashaying deer heads, leave now. Goldfrapp are back and the pair are in a thoroughly folky state of mind. Gone are the dirty disco beats, whip-cracking erotica and tassels. And there’s not a Swiss mountain-top yodel in sight. Enough about what it isn’t… let’s talk about what it is, as firmly in its place is an...
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- Clowns
- Little Bird
- Happiness
- Road To Somewhere
- Eat Yourself
- Some People
- A&E
- Cologne Cerrone Houdini
- Caravan Girl
- Monster Love
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Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree: Wikipedia Album Entry
The fourth album from Goldfrapp establishes a new direction for the electronica duo. While their previous releases BLACK CHERRY and SUPERNATURE were steeped in dance and club music, SEVENTH TREE is dominated by acoustic textures, downtempo rhythms, and swirling ambient soundscapes. Where previous efforts were seemingly tailored for dancefloors, SEVENTH TREE is a late-night headphone album.
The album's first single, "A & E," for example, has singer Alison Goldfrapp employing her light, airy soprano in a relaxed, almost conversational style while trackmaker Will Gregory layers subtle synth lines and effects in a way that's warm and inviting. The lullaby-like "Little Bird" is equally lilting, opening into an expansive, ethereal passage reminiscent of the Cocteau Twins, while the delicate acoustic "Eat Yourself" is possibly the album's most heartbreaking and lovely moment. With SEVENTH TREE Goldfrapp proves itself capable of pushing into new, emotionally effecting musical directions without losing any of its much valued sonic breadth.
Audio Mixers: Tony Hoffer; Bill Mims .
Photographer: Serge Leblon.
Goldfrapp: Allison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory.
Personnel: Alex Lee (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Chris Goulstone, Richard Evans (guitar); Kit Morgan, Steve Evans (acoustic guitar); Chris Tombling, Pigott Smith, Tom, Mark Berrow, Ann Morfee, Christopher Clad, Dermot Crehan, Stephen Morris, Patrick Kiernan, Boguslaw Kostecki, Everton Nelson, Johnathan Rees, Sonia Slany, Cathy Thompson, Jackie Shave (violin); Jon Thorne, Kate Wilkinson, Peter Lale (viola); Melissa Phelps, Cathy Giles, Robin Firman, David Jack Daniels , Paul Kegg, Chris Worsey (cello); Aidan Love (keyboards, programming); Paddy Lannigan, Mary Scully (double bass); Damon Reece (drums, percussion); Denny Weston, Jr. (drums); Nick Batt (drum programming).
Additional personnel: Steve Evans (guitar); Chris Goulstone (acoustic guitar, sampler); Andrew Murphy (acoustic guitar); Flood (keyboards); Tony Hoffer, Charlie Jones (electric bass); Denny Weston, Jr., Aidan Love, Richard Evans , Alex Lee, Damon Reece.
Rolling Stone (p.59) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "mart arrangements abound: 'A & E' rides a bittersweet, Feist-style chorus, and on 'Little Bird,' Goldfrapp sings eerie minor-key melodies over a bed of swirling keyboards and trip-hop drums."
Entertainment Weekly (p.61) - "[D]ialed-down....Very lovely..." -- Grade: B+
Uncut (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "SEVENTH TREE is Goldfrapp unplugged. It is a digital folk album. It is hand-knitted synth pop played around a campfire on dulcimers and autoharps and harmoniums."
CMJ - "It's an introspective piece, and also their most sedate record to date, soothing listeners with flawless female vocals waltzing over dreamy melodies."
Q (Magazine) (p.103) - "'Caravan Girl' is bright, summery pop, 'Cologne Cerrone Houdini' has a languid, Serge Gainsbourg feel..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.103) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] very English pastoral work, a lush and trippy affair with shades of Edward Lear-like surrealism and John Winston Lennon amid strawberry fields."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.67) - Ranked #38 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[A] tune-rich texture-fest that moistened eyes and tingled toes."
Blender (Magazine) (p.98) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Goldrapp's voice remains extraordinary, as witchily sensual as Kate Bush's, as otherworldly as a theremin."
Harp (magazine) (p.102) - "[T]his new recording finds her in superb voice. More organic/simple instrumentation and lush cinematic soundscapes dominate here."
Paste (magazine) (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Imagine Feist with more reserve than Canadian heartiness, and more interested in pristine sound beds than bubbly effusions."
The Word (magazine) (p.94) - "The opening 'Clowns' is an undeniably beautiful merengue, the likes of which you won't have heard since Scott Walker's 'Plastic Palace People'....SEVENTH TREE is mostly strings, gentle guitars and all thing bucolic."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "SEVENTH TREE is a grower; it's more pastel-tinted than the riotous neon of BLACK CHERRY or SUPERNATURE, but no less gorgeous."
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Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree Lyrics
Goldfrapp - Some People Lyrics
Some people kill for less
Some people find it hard to get dressed
Some people well, ask how old I am
Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl Lyrics
What is her name
That caravan girl
What is her name?
Goldfrapp - Cologne Cerrone Houdini Lyrics
Moments of perfection
Idle in the sunshine
Overbearing hunter
In another world
Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself Lyrics
If you know me good
See it now, the blade is deep
You could loathe the lie
Seen in all that now
Goldfrapp - Road To Somewhere Lyrics
Walking down the Mercer St
Been a long, hot summer
Rain like daggers coming
Down on me
Goldfrapp - Happiness Lyrics
Join our group and you will find
Harmony and peace of mind
Make it better
We're here to welcome you
Goldfrapp - Little Bird Lyrics
She's like a little bird
She flies from A to B
To see what she can see
She's far away from me
Goldfrapp - Clowns Lyrics
Only clowns would play with those balloons
What do ya wanna look like Barbie for?
Dear, oh Lord, it's easy
Goldfrapp - A&e Lyrics
It's a blue, bright blue Saturday, hey, hey
And the pain has starting to slip away, hey, hey
I'm in a backless dress on a pastel ward that's shining
Think I want you still but it may be pills at work
Goldfrapp - Monster Love Lyrics
I never thought I would return
To be consumed by you again
Think you're cured, you'd see it come
The folly of a monster love like you
