Starting with and often returning to a pastoral orch-folk setting that frankly flatters Alison
G.'s wispy but poised vocals, the tracks featuring such retro innovations serve to cast the predominant familiar elements in a new light, turning the more conventionally-programmed numbers like "Road To Somewhere" into the disorienting ones, as well as making one more forgiving of songs like "Some People", where the strings and ponderous tempo conspire to lay it on way too thick. Missteps and all, the various refinements on
Seventh Tree should bring plenty of new fans Ms Goldfrapp's way.
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