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Perfume Tree were originally a group of disc jockeys from Vancouver (Canada) who used to perform live shows at the border between Throbbing Gristle’s industrial music, dub and hip hop. The core of Pete Lutwyche (samples, guitar, beats), Jane Tilley (vocals, guitar) and Bruce Turpin (mix, samples) got together in 1991 and coined the moniker Perfume Tree.

Bell Jar, on the cassette album Dust (Zulu, 1992), and the EP Remote (Zulu, 1993) established their credentials, expanding gradually from a “rockier” song format to a “freer” trance-oriented format that also borrows from hip hop, dub and electronica. The album delivers an ultra-atmospheric pop (sort of Cocteau Twins’ dream-pop stretched into ambient territory like Dead Can Dance could do and adorned with psychedelic overtones a` la Sky Cries Mary).

The Sun’s Running Out (Zulu, 1994) and the EP Fathom The Sky (1995) enhanced the ethereal quality of their music, with cryptic vocals floating over shoegazing wails of guitars, floating dub bass lines, clouds of keyboard effects and hypnotic funky beats.

That style achieved an almost baroque intensity on A Lifetime Away (Zulu, 1995), derivative of Bjork’s quirky pop with a touch of Enya’s atmospheric world-music.

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annillusion wrote:
October 2009

maybe I judged too hurry. Amazing band, very unique

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annillusion wrote:
October 2009

I'm hearing "Dust", and unless the other albums were compleatly different, this is for sure NOT trip hop

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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
October 2009

Dust is the only album I have own where I am in passionate love with everyone song. It is a pure and utter masterpiece in every sense of the word.

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THee-BeAtNiK wrote:
June 2009

:-)

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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
May 2009

And now they're an obsession.

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CovinS wrote:
April 2009

As much as I really enjoy their last couple releases, the absence of the awesome bass lines that made their first few so great really inhibit me from thoroughly enjoying them... It's all amazing though.

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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
March 2009

It has taken me a very long time, but they are growing on me.

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CovinS wrote:
March 2009

Is it just me or did they take in a few IDM influences for Tide's Out and Feeler?

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MokraNiunia wrote:
March 2009

anyone have uneasy in mp3? full? mail me please then.

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miss_tremond wrote:
February 2009

great..just great :)

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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
February 2009

Bell Jar!

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CovinS wrote:
October 2008

If you dig Perfume Tree, there's a good chance you'll like Cybo. Look her up, it's good stuff.

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CovinS wrote:
September 2008

I have acquired most of their catalogue... It's stunning

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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
September 2008

brand new group with perfume tree : n i g h t l o u n g e

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CovinS wrote:
September 2008

AHHHH, the iTunes tracklists are all mistagged and it's driving me nuts. Even Perfume Tree's website lists them in the wrong order -_-

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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
August 2008

I love the subversive, lo-fi atmosphere of Bruce (it's an unlisted outro on Remote). Somehow the wind bells manage to make what's definitely the most creepy song on that EP. When you thought it's over, Bruce Turpin "phones" you and says: Hey, it's me, Bruce. I'm just realigning my chakra and balancing my veins (I have doubts regarding 'veins' though). And then he ends as fast as he "called", with the disturbing sound of the wind bells leaving a scar on your mind.

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CovinS wrote:
May 2008

Virgin is so beautiful...

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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
April 2008

My precious nightmare jacket!

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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
March 2008

OMG Flooded is amazingly beautiful...

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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
March 2008

A Lifetime Away might just be one of the best trip-hop albums ever made.

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