Hooverphonic - The Magnificent Tree
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Artist: HooverphonicEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Autoharp
- Mad About You
- Waves
- Jacky Cane - Hooverphonic, Callier, Dennis
- The Magnificent Tree - Hooverphonic, Callier Geerts, Arn
- Vinegar and Salt
- Frosted Flake Wood
- Everytime We Live Together We Die a Bit More
- Out of Sight
- Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs - Hooverphonic, Callier, Arnaert
- L' Odeur Animale
- Renaissance Affair
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Free Music Review: Not their best...take a pass...
Hit: 2 Stars
I'm not an electro-pop fan but I happen to have bought a couple Hooverphonic CDs many years ago. This one leaves me quite cold. If you want something better by this group I'd suggest "Blue Wonder Power Milk" which is pretty catchy somehow. It's a much better CD than the inaptly named "Magnificent Tree."
The Magnificent Tree Poster
French limited edition of the Belgian trio's third album now adds two bonus tracks, 'Out Of Sight (Al Stone Remix)' & 'Mad About You (Francois K. Vocal Remix)'. 13 tracks in all. 2001 release.If you've been following the career of this Belgian trio, you've seen them go from trip-hop (on their debut, A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular) to trip-pop (1998's Blue Wonder Power Milk), pitting fan against fan in the process. One thing's for sure: The Magnificent Tree only adds wood to the fire. The "trip" has all but left the pop, leaving behind an assortment of solid, radio-friendly tunes, but hardly anything with the character and charm of their earlier work. It's too bad, really, because though there's some real ear candy here, it's lost in the crinkly wrapper of predictable arrangements and vapid lyrics. Geike Arnaert, given to ethereal coolness on Milk, chooses a more out-front, sultry vocal style on Tree, and while it works on the uncharacteristically rockin' "Jacky Cane" and the torchy "Vinegar & Salt," elsewhere ("Mad About You," "Everytime We Live Together," and the embarrassingly treacly "Out of Sight") it just rings false--too slick for its own good. Touches of the old style appear here and there, notably on the atmospheric, sample-infused "Autoharp" and the dreamy, Dubstar-like "Waves," but they promise more than the rest of the album can deliver. It may be a solid, sturdy Tree, but it's a few branches short of magnificence. --Steve Landau
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