Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, the duo known by her last name, have made some wonderfully inventive electronic music over the course of their first three albums, with the last two producing some smashing dance floor numbers. In their fourth album, released Feb. 26, they make an unexpected departure from ever-increasing electronic delights to produce what sounds a lot more like a good Kate Bush album from the ’90s. Even song titles like “Eat Yourself” and “Caravan Girl” sound like they were borrowed from Kate.
Alison’s soft vocals provide a lush coat of paint to transcendental guitars, which are more likely to make you sway yourself to sleep than to dance across the floor. Not to say there are no dance tracks on the album at all–”Happiness” and “Caravan Girl” are standouts for their potential to create a ballroom blitz. Of the softer tracks, “Little Bird” and “A&E” (the first single) are most likely to make you settle down comfortably, dreaming contentedly of the scenes of nature they invoke. Interestingly, A&E seems to instruct you to relax and forget about jumping up to the music with lyrics like “Do you really wanna know how I was dancing on the floor?/I was trying to fool you when I’m crawling up that door.”
Overall, Seventh Tree is a very nice album and a strong entry in the Goldfrapp discography. Still, it’s a congenial tangent to the much more energetic albums Black Cherry and Supernature.
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