Green Fields of Foreverland

The Gentle Waves | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 4, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 22, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jeepster Records
• ASIN: B00000IX77
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,894 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hangman in the Shadow

2. Evensong

3. Renew and Restore

4. Emanuelle, Skating on Thing Ice

5. Rose I Love You

6. Enchanted Place

7. Tree Lullaby

8. Dirty Snow for the Broken Ground

9. Weathershow

10. A Chapter in the Life of Mathiew

11. To Salt a Scar

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute, cute, cute., December 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Green Fields of Foreverland (Audio CD)

This is enjoyable album, all 31 minutes of it, which is frankly the perfect length. Lovely background music to tea and cakes on a rainy day or having a nice little picnic with a shy friend. It's Winnie the Pooh music. And I mean that in the very best way.

I was underwhelmed the first time I heard it as, like others, I was somehow stupidly expecting Belle & Sebastian again (which, admittedly, this isn't THAT far from, philosophically speaking). But I'm listening to it right now and it's grown on me. It is simply a sweet CD.

Those negative reviews are, judging from their tone, written by people who get angry fairly easily. This album was clearly not made for that audience.

By the way, "Weathershow" really rocks!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gentle indeed, August 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Green Fields of Foreverland (Audio CD)

I was honestly embarassed to read the negative reviews of this album. There is nothing not to love. Isobel is a beautiful artist full of songs which, while on the surface seem compositionally and lyrically simple, are truly completely relatable and beautiful in a simple way.

Maybe those who don't like the album can't relate to the album. There are Belle and Sebastian motifs running throughout this disc, but with a differnet (feminine) yet equally passive tone.

If "To Salt A Scar" and "Renew and Restore" aren't your taste, you must at least love the catchy pop of "Evensong" and "Weathershow".

For everyone looking to compare it to someone before, look at it for what it is.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Props to Isobel + Friends, June 27, 2002

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itsoybunnyagain (Brooklyn, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Fields of Foreverland (Audio CD)

The arrangements on The Green Fields of Foreverland are wonderfully sparse and lovingly played. They are clear and simple, a virtue that most bands could learn from. The playing is certainly amateur, but makes no effort to hide this and that is (mostly) charming. Most of the songs are very quiet and full of atmosphere.

The lyrics are lovely and poetic, occasionally funny. It's not navel-gazing stuff.