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Seventh Tree (Deluxe Edition)

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Album Description:

Limited deluxe two disc (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of this 2008 release, the fourth studio album by the Electronic duo. This deluxe package contains a bonus DVD featuring a documentary, 'A&E' music video and a Q&A session, presented in card picture sleeves housed in a deluxe clamshell picture box complete with handwritten lyric book, fold out poster and postcards. Seventh Tree sees the duo return to the more ethereal feel of their debut Felt Mountain as opposed the glitter glamour of Supernature. Here they use elements of Folk and Ambient music, and display influence from Gallic stars such Air and Serge Gainsbourg, all resulting in a warm, delicate, irresistible album. Features 10 tracks including the single 'A&E'. Mute.

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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

Customer Reviews:

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-07
Alison, the genius.
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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Date: 2008-07-07
Happiness, how did you get to be
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.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-22
The Best CD I've heard in a long time.
The mind altering tones and lyrics allow me sit back and listen ..... not only enjoying the beautiful melody but the mood that each song creates. In my estimation the best Goldfrapp CD yet.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-16
Just let it take you...
Since the actual music seems already to have been discussed to death here, all I can really say is, put it on and just enjoy it ... and if it takes you somewhere go along. Other than that, the Deluxe edition of Seventh Tree is definitely worth buying over the standard CD, maybe for the little lyrics booklet included alone, with the DVD and poster making it all the better, not to mention the good-quality box it all comes in. Especially if you're already a Goldfrapp fan.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-09
Alison?
I was really shocked when I first listened to this album. It was like wanting to see a hardcore porn and getting stuck with softcore instead. The album is good, because Goldfrapp is an excellent musician but it is better suited to be background music rather than the best track on your dance party mix like "Strict Machine," or "Slide In" were. I could swear that in some parts I thought I was listening to Enya, my worst nightmare.