Sydney, AU. (Top40 Charts/ EMI MUSIC Australia) - The genius pair Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory are back with a new album to send sensual shivers down your spine.

After the erotic bass-laden disco fuelled cracker that was Supernature, they have returned with the warm, sensual, and shiimmering Seventh Tree. It embodies the sound of a very British delirium, echoing the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear and the eccentricities of early Pink Floyd.

Recorded in a 1960s bungalow in Bath, it was a conscious move to step away from the Weimar-esque strutting of earlier work and explore a more psychedelic terrain. "We kept saying 'it's got to be more psychedelic, more psychedelic'," recalls Will. "And neither of us knew what that meant actually. I think it was our word for describing something that had a sort of dreamy, rural feeling to it but had also a darkness."

"We've always talked about films like the Wicker Man," adds Alison, "films that were very English and quite dark, with elements of paganism, but with a humour to them - a very British humour. So it's this combination of the naive English folkiness with a bit of horror and Californian sunshine thrown in."
Watch the clip for the first single 'A & E', and you'll know exactly what they mean. Marching piles of autumn leaves and self-aware foliage dancing in a mysterious forest landscape that can't decide whether it's dusk or midday? That's psychadelia!
GOLDFRAPP - SEVENTH TREE - AVAILABLE FEB 23, 2008