The Magnificent Tree
by Hooverphonic
  • Record Label: Sony
  • Release Date: Sep 26, 2000
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Q Magazine
    60
    The Magnificent Tree is accomplished, just unsensational. It nails the neo-'60s trip-hop set down by Mono and Olive but then tries too hard to have a finger in other pies.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    They've already featured on a multitude of soundtracks including Stealing Beauty, Shades and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Not to mention cinema ads for champagne and episodes of La Femme Nikita and er, Baywatch. That's pretty much all bases covered, then.
  3. AllMusic
    60
    Classic embryonic vocalic beauty from Geike Arnaert still carries the translucence of the band's signature ethereality, and shines as hard as she did on the band's previous releases. However, musical composition on songs such as "Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs" and "Frosted Flake Wood" are more intricate and sonically defined.
  5. MTV.com
    40
    With 1998's Blue Wonder Powder Milk and now The Magnificent Tree, Hooverphonic's sound has become increasingly hip and cosmopolitan, slowly processing out everything that made it so alluring in the first place. It's still sleek and meticulously produced. But, as with the latest from Morcheeba (another band with similar trip-hoppy proclivities), the nagging sense of something menacing behind these songs has practically disappeared.

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User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Deralac
    Dec 16, 2022
    9
    This is by far my favorite Hooverphonic album. I generally prefer their first three albums over the later material, but this one definitelyThis is by far my favorite Hooverphonic album. I generally prefer their first three albums over the later material, but this one definitely stands out.… Full Review »
  2. PavelK
    Apr 24, 2006
    10
    The greatest one I ever had! The only CD I got where nothing goes wrong!
  3. BennyM
    Nov 7, 2005
    8
    Great songwriter, incredible talented. The singer sucks but who cares..the songs are very good.
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