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Seventh Tree is the fourth studio album by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, released on 22 February 2008 by Mute Records. If I had to pick an album to lose myself on a camping trip in the woods for a week, it would totally be this one (although anything Boards of Canada would do as well). Wonderful sounds and arrangements abound, and I have to say this album really highlights Alison's vocal prowess and versatility (has anyone else noted that hint of Norah Jones), never more impressive than on Road To Somewhere. Not only did I pay this one used for 5 dollars, but it also came in a beautiful mini box digipack set.

It's also a move that few who came in during the last album would've imagined, but in the grand scheme of all things Goldfrapp, it makes perfect sense. Over a perfectly balanced soundtrack of strings and guitars Alison mumbles something about large balloons being played with by clowns. It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) within four days of release, on 29 February 2008.Road to Somewhere and Some People veer close to bucolic easy listening: they're a bit middle of the public bridleway.

Seventh Tree became Goldfrapp's second release to chart on the Billboard 200 in the United States, [27] where it debuted at number 48 with first-week sales of 15,000 copies. This ambience is often so subtle and slow-moving it doesn't seem to go anywhere, and it coasts on some frothy sense of pleasantness that evaporates the moment the song ends. All of Gregory's codeine melodies would be a lot more salvageable, however, if Alison undercut it with the trademark strengths of her voice. There was a certain circular irony in Goldfrapp being ripped off by Madonna: like Mrs Ritchie, Goldfrapp's skill lies in a canny ability to alight on other artists' ideas and polish them up for mass acceptance. Little Bird, with its Beatlesque psychedelia and soaring vocal coda is probably the best thing they've ever done.The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. an album as hummably lovely as it is knowingly referencing of a certain tradition of neo-psychedelic English whimsy.

It's what made the Marlene Dietrich mood of Felt Mountain so intriguingly weird, while Black Cherry and Supernature would have simply been slightly-above-par electro-glam ephemera without her Kylie-gone-sinister purr. And now I love them all - Clowns' ethereal, breathy, incoherent vocalisation accompanying clever sampling (they don't play guitars, you wouldn't know), the purity and simplicity of the lyrics to Some People and Road to Somewhere.Originally released in February 2008, Seventh Tree has been out of print for many years and will be reissued here as a yellow vinyl pressing with the original artwork by Alison Goldfrapp and Mat Maitland with photos by Serge Lebon, packaged in a gatefold sleeve and full colour inner sleeve with lyrics, an art print and exclusive to MuteBank an A1 poster as featured on the original pressing. Seventh Tree unveils an Alison Goldfrapp quite different to the one we saw on her career highpoint to date, 2005's Supernature . There were artists for whom constant reinvention was a raison d'être - David Bowie and Dexys Midnight Runners - but more commonly, it was a matter of necessity for bands buffeted by the turbulence of an unpredictable music scene. If she can make something this fresh out of ostensibly stale source material, what might she do next?



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