Zero 7 - The Garden
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Free Music Review: The Garden
Hit: 4 Stars
An interesting refreshingly new cd that is not in the mainstream of current popular music scene. Relaxing but exciting, pleasant melodies with great musical textures. I strongly recommend to anyone who has an enjoyment of fine music.Free Music Review: The best
Hit: 5 Stars
Seems like a whole new genre of rock and roll. Each cut is excellent. Love the guest appearences of Sia and Jose Gonzales. Overall great album every cut is different and interesting.Free Music Review: It will grab you with time
Hit: 4 Stars
The Garden does not seduce immediately like Simple Things did, but it will with time and a few listenings. Its infectious melodies and velvety vocals will eventually suck you into a world of chill to never let you go again...Free Music Review: It needs a chance
Hit: 4 Stars
It seems there a lot of mixed feelings about this album. I think it is quite good, yes a departure from Simple Things, but different is not bad it is just different. I will admit at first I had mixed feelings about it, but after a few listens it really grew on me. I think it could be their best album yet. I do miss the vocals of Sophie Barker, but change is sometimes a good thing. It is nice to see a band move away from the more typical sounds of this genre. The acoustic guitars really add a nice touch. The most important ingredient is still here, the ethereal atmospheric sounds. If you keep an open mind and give it a chance you may really like it.Free Music Review: I would never have expected this but it's true: "The Garden" is my favorite album of the year
Hit: 5 Stars
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I got a promo copy of "The Garden," which was lucky for me because I probably would not have bought it otherwise.
Zero 7 are cool and all, but I generally hear enough of their music in movies, commercials, episodes of "Sex and the City" and coffee shops.
But this is one of those albums that I put on as background noise and it kept grabbing my attention. There's nothing better than a background song that draws your attention to it, makes you go, "Which song is that?"
First it was the songs that featured singer Jose Gonzales, whose unique vocal style reminds me of no one as much as... Gilbert O'Sullivan. So I started liking the songs he sang on -- "Futures" "Crosses" "Left Behind," and especially "Today." Yeah, Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" was probably the song of the summer, but my personal private tune was "Today," which sounds like Sergio Mendes, Beach Boys harmonies and "Alone Again Naturally" blended together into a perfect piece of electro-pop.
Then the off-beat instrumentation started hooking me: the toy-like guitar of Dedi Madden on "Throw it All Away," the acoustic guitars of "Today" and particularly the horns on "Your Place," which transform a plaintive ballad into a sprawling epic of almost Morricone-esque proportions. The final swell of "Your Place" is like the greatest soundtrack for a movie montage that was never made -- at least not yet and hopefully not everr.
I've had disucssions with others who say this is a boring album, not as upbeat as previous efforts, and some of the reviews here express the same sentiment. But I think if listeners stick with it, it becomes an album that eventually reveals a wealth of addictive pleasures. I've had it on my MP3 player since the month before it came out and still have no inclination whatsoever to remove it.