Lifetime Away

Perfume Tree | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 4, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: World Domination
• ASIN: B000005LAN
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,884 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Flare

2. Virgin

3. Contact

4. So Far Away

5. Never Pass This Way Again

6. See Me Smile

7. Blue Stars

8. Uneasy

9. My Worst Friend

10. The Nightmirror

11. August

12. Crystal Tips

13. late light

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourites, January 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lifetime Away (Audio CD)

I'm not really into ambient, trance, gothic or any of that other stuff. My primary tastes in music are in Bach, Wagner, Yes, Genesis, Stevie Wonder, Shostakovich, Led Zepplin, etc. So,as you can clearly see, my taste, eclectic though it may be, doesn't really lend itself to bands like Perfume Tree. However, this album really does it for me--Go figure! See Me Smile is incredible. That intense rhythmic drive coupled with the Enya-esque voice and the layering of vocals and bleeps and Guitar all make for a luscious landsape of lovely listening pleasure!

I guess one of the reasons I like it so much is that they seem to have captured that same sort of groove essence that, say, Pink Floyd had going on Meddle or that Genesis were doing on Selling England by the Pound (Cinema Show) and Trespass.

Some of you out there might find these comparisons a bit absurd, but I don't care. From one who usually finds this genre of music bogus, A Lifetime Away by Perfume Tree is, in book at least, a real jewel.

CMC

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Awesome, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lifetime Away (Audio CD)

This grew on me fast and is difficult to take out of my CD player. My wife calls it doper music but I call it great. They need to find a major label.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ethereal, ambient dub of the highest caliber, February 23, 1999

By 

Charles Mumford ([e-mail]) (Simi Valley, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lifetime Away (Audio CD)

Perfume Tree presents an album full of late night groove music, slow and sensual basslines snaking around through open-air, Cocteau Twins soundscapes. Singer Jane (the band are identified by first names only on this CD) whispers high notes with a clear, strong timbre while the band lopes along, inspired by both Brian Eno's concepts of ambience music and Jamaican dub reggae. A special alchemy takes place here, setting Perfume Tree apart from Morcheeba or Massive Attack by reason of their band interplay. This doesn't sound like a studio project; it feels like an album by a fully developed band. This is the best example of sexy, pulsating, delicate, low-simmer sexadelic funk you'll ever hear. The follow-up album, "Feeler", is not nearly as inspired.