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The Garden

Zero 7 (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	Futures
2	Throw It All Away
3	Seeing Things
4	The Pageant Of The Bizarre
5	You're My Flame
6	Left Behind
7	Today
8	This Fine Social Scene
9	Your Place
10	If I Can't Have You
11	Crosses
12	Waiting To Die

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The Garden sees Zero 7 take a fresher, more upbeat musical direction while still maintaining their trademark sound. Features the track "Throw It All Away" featuring Sia. [Note: This product is an authorized CD-R and is manufactured on demand]

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"Upbeat" seems like an odd description of a recording that includes song titles like "Throw It All Away" and "Waiting to Die." Yet fans of Zero 7 (the English sound-design duo of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker) will indeed discover that the group's third release exhibits a slightly more animated pace--more multitempo than downtempo--than its predecessors, the seductively trippy Simple Things and the like-minded When It Falls. Craving a follow-up to the breathy, interstellar soul of "Destiny" from the group's debut disc, or "Passing By" from When It Falls? You may struggle to find similar magic here. Even so, The Garden is an intriguing listen, showcasing the sophistication that makes Zero 7 the Steely Dan of chillout--wry, intelligent lyrical observations, inventive musicianship, a detached sense of cool forged by the duo's heady blend of folk, jazz, '70s soul, and electronica. The Kraftwerk-like "Seeing Things"--the disc's lone instrumental--and the pulsing "You're My Flame" are useful tracks to gauge this album's elevated vibrancy. Sia Furler is the group's only returning vocalist, and the absence of Sophie Barker and Tina Dico, the gentle Christine McVie counterpoints to Furler's rough-hewn Stevie Nicks, is noticeable. Mozez and his Seal-like soul is also gone, replaced by more folk/pop-oriented José Gonzãlez. Binns even spends 80 seconds as the quiet lead voice on the slow-building brass outburst "Your Place." Furler's up-and-down vocals on "The Pageant of the Bizarre" will stick in your mind, but her best work comes on two clever lampoons of pampered lifestyles, "This Fine Social Scene" and "Waiting to Die." (Sample lyric: "Now is a good time for tasty glass of wine; let's not worry ourselves about carbon dioxide.") Different, yes, but worthwhile. --Terry Wood

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.68 x 0.4 x 5.07 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Atlantic
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Atlantic
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000FC2G8W
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #181,131 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #95 in Ambient Pop
- #818 in Ambient (CDs & Vinyl)
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kevin

flashes of brilliance, but only flashes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 17, 2006

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I love Zero 7. I love some of the music on this album, but it is definitly my least favorite, and it pains me to say that.

Throw out all the five star and one star reviews, and check out what people are saying. We're all here because we love this group's music, so what's different on this album?As other reviewers have pointed out, there are a lot of half-realized works. Overall, the vocals are fine, but I do find myself missing the variety of three contrasting lead vocalists: Sophie Barker or Tina Dico or Mozez. I also miss the gorgeous strings they used to drop with great effect. To give an example of flashes of brilliance, let's take the beginning of the album.

"Futures" kicks off the album, introduces Jose Gonzalez, and sounds great. Then about 2 1/2 minutes in, it just goofs around with some annoying sound editing (one effect sounds like your CD is skipping) and then brings in some obvious and klunky percussion. This give you the sense they are building up one of their epic climaxes, but it just dies there. 2 1/2 minutes, then mediocrity. Bummer.

The next tune, "Throw It All Away" sounds great and surprisingly bouncy, but then a couple of things happen. The energy really kind of drops on the chorus. It's unsatisfying, and you can hear Sia's soulful licks coming before they happen because, well, there's so little to do. And then a little annoying guitar line comes in; it sounds amateurish. Coming from Zero 7, I'm surprised.

Then comes an instrumental tune, "Seeing Things." Great production, but kind of soulless. My wife walked in while it was playing and said that it sounded like "video game music." Ouch--that's my Zero 7 your talking about! But she had a point.

"Pageant of the Bizarre" and "Fine Social Scene" sound nice, but depend on you really connecting with their repetitive builds, and thanks to some buzzy guitar work, it works for me on Social Scene, but the beginning of Bizarre is a better song. Again, pieces of brilliance.

So what did I think was perfect?

I'm glad another review mentioned "Left Behind." It's a gorgeous one minute song. But one minute?! I would have loved to hear them transform this jewel into one of their six-minute epics. Oh well.

"You're My Flame" take their new techie-chill-bouncy approach and nails it; Sia sounds great without digging into her soul bag.

"Today" takes a samba beat and throws the patented Zero & chill on top; Jose Gonzalez is perfect. Great track.

Overall, pieces of most everything on the album sound wonderful, but there are a lot of bland let-downs for this Zero 7 fan. But I still love 'em and I aint going anywhere.

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Super_K

Good, but not as good as Simple Things and When it Falls; too much folk

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2015

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Ok, so when I purchased this Zero 7 album, I was super excited about it, because I really, really liked their previous two albums Simple Things and When it Falls.

I felt that this album fell somewhat short of those two. The strange and wonderful synth sounds were not as varied or as unusual on this album. The singing was less sensual and sexy, and more like the music that would get played on a Light Songs radio station. I was looking for something wonderfully weird, classy, and relaxing, like the previous two albums, and I feel like this one just gets halfway there. Also, personally, I think the song called Waiting to Die on this album is annoying to listen to; I really don't like it. It also doesn't suit me that the opening song "Futures" starts out with this acoustic guitar when I'm impatient to get to some spacey synth sounds. Along that line, I think that this album has had a good portion of the spacey-ness and sensual down tempo stuff replaced by elements of folk. I don't have anything against folk per se, but I didn't really want that to be part of a Zero 7 album.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm still giving this album 3 stars. The song "Crosses" has some nice fun woodblock/electronic beats. This Fine Social Scene *is* a really sensual and sexy song that is more like the work on the earlier albums. The jazz vocals in "I can't have you" seem really classy to me, and I like that, and it goes on.

So in summary, if you like some of the songs on Simple Things and When it Falls, go ahead and check out the ones on this album, and buy the ones that you happen to like. I'm not sure if this album has as much creativity as the earlier ones, but some of the songs are still quite good, and should be well-liked by most Zero 7 fans. On the other hand, if you've never bought any Zero 7, you might want to check out Simple Things and When it Falls first. If you don't like folk music so much, you won't like this album as much.

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Kurt J. Hemphill

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2006

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After reading some of the other reviews I was amazed to see so many Zero 7 fans dissapointed by The Garden. What an amazing transformation this album was from the previous two recordings. Honestly, the first time I listened to the CD I didn't like it at all. I decided to listen again and it starting catching my attention quickly. By the 3rd or 4rd play I was definetely hooked and now I absolutely love it...it's one of my top 10 all time favorites. Maybe some of you should give it another chance.

The album definitely differs from previous albums but it still very much the Zero 7 sound that I know and love. It sounds to me like Zero 7 has taken their usual style and added soooo much more in terms of "fillings". Imagine looking at a childs coloring book...it's filled with enjoyable pictures, inviting environments, clean lines, and images that provoke some imagination. Although very enjoyable, when you stand back and look at the entire book there's still room for improvement. Now picture the same book as it's filled with brilliant colors...bringing forward and explosion of life and excitement to an already enjoyable experience.

This is how I feel about Zero 7. I've always liked them enough to buy the CD's but I never thought of them as one of my favorites until now. Their additional explosion of creativity in The Garden filled a void that I never knew was there. They've painted a picture in the form of music that I can't get out of my head and I am truely in love with the music.

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