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Goldfrapp have shed the sex-Moroder-robot-Bolan-fuck-disco like a used condom and re-tooled themselves as a whimsical psychedelia and pastoral folk outfit for the disappointing Seventh Tree.
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Seventh Tree, though in some respects an organic redrafting of the autoerotic Goldfrapp template, picks up where Supernature left off in its setting of the controls for the heart of the mainstream, and misses badly the slickly subversive tone that lifted the band from the realms of coffee table mediocrity.
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Seventh Tree is bound to ruffle a few electro-feathered fans, but there’s no denying it’s a venture that sets the pair into new experimental territory.
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But with all the excitement and decadence drained out of the music and the voice, the trite themes stand out a bit more clearly.
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Some more uptempos would have been nice, but Seventh Tree still makes for good post-party chill- out music.
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The duo are too consistently subdued, and without their usual spectacle, Seventh Tree veers perilously close to dull. [Mar 2008, p.102]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 59 out of 70
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Mixed: 7 out of 70
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Negative: 4 out of 70
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Dec 8, 2013
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Aug 10, 2011
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Nov 3, 2010