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Free Music Review: Lemon Jelly: www.lemonjelly.ky (Impotent Fury/XL)
Hit: 4 Stars
Year of Release: 2004
Headline: The Beginner's Guide to Understanding Lemon Jelly
Every artist that to those who haven't heard of them is an "acquired taste" needs an introduction of some sort. An album so early is just rushing into them after and not letting anyone get to know your music or what you do, before expecting something righteous and good on the album. I knew nothing about Lemon Jelly's EPs. I first bought Lost Horizons and fell in love with the album and Lemon Jelly, because it sent me on an adventure in different songs that I would never forget. The "greatest hits" album of '64-'95 just gave me Lemon Jelly's rendition of other people's songs, if he had a chance to remix them all into their own work. Both of them were really good. So I wonder what www.lemonjelly.ky has to offer. After listening to this, it sounds not only like a blueprint for an excellent album like Lost Horizons, but it is a good beginner's guide for those who want to shake hands with Lemon Jelly through the headphones.
The album is actually a collection (call them a reissue, if you'd like) of the three EPs they had created. Each one had some sort of a personality. The Bath EP feel good music; Yellow EP was Adventurous, and Midnight EP had a beautifully nocturnal or magical outlook. The weakest of the three has to be the Bath. "In The Bath" starts off with a spacious instrumental (none the bubbly), with the woman being made to say over the beat, "What do you do in the bath?" And no one quite bothers to answer. But for those who can get past the repetition will find the music quite adventurous. It made me want to picture getting in the shower, slipping on some soap and landing in an ocean, crawling through a pipe, only to end up in a kid's swimming Pool, step on the grass, to be flipped on the other side as the sun shines while the stereotypical Egypt walks towards me, and at the end, I come out of the bath floating in a bubble. All of that while listening to "In the Bath", and it made it even more enjoyable. "Nervous Tension" samples a Yoga-like tape to relax your mind, yet the music doesn't follow too much suit as the song sounds like it is trying to create a soundtrack of Portishead in a day spa. "A Tune for Jack" is just a feel good travel through an instrumental for a sea elephant named Jack, and through both that and an interruption by a baby boy trying to say "bumblebee", the adventure seems pretty worth the trip underwater That was what it is like in The Bath. Now to describe the bright Yellow EP.
Kicking off the Yellow EP was "Our Majesty King Raam", which is a bright salute to King Raam, as well as one of those tracks where you know they went over the time limit somewhere. If they haven't, then this album would do well as the track to have a morning theme to it, because from the keyboard reminiscent of Roy Ayers, thissounds like quite an homage for the track. One that didn't even tell us what kind of man King Raam was, but an homage anyway. Next, is "The Staunton Lick", where at the beginning is an awkward walk-through of how to play "The Staunton Lick" from an instruction tape on how to "Teach Yourself Folk Guitar". From that was born a balloon ride or a view over the canyon, with only your guitar to accompany you there. Now, as for the majestic "Homage to Patagonia", the 9 ½ minutes it takes to spread its worldly charm around is used when one half soundtracks a walk through Patagonia (complete with Chinese strings), and an ending as breathtaking as the sun to the common eye. Now that we got the Yellow EP (known to me as the Morning album), the Midnight EP has plenty in store, if you enjoyed your stay at Yellow.
"Kneel Before Your God" sounds like the song that should have graced the What the Bleep Do We Know!? Movie for it's soundtrack through your mind, and a good way to grace your thoughts on spiritual balance. Speaking of spiritual balance, "Page One" is only majestic if you, too, were to pretend that all around you weren't any pizza parlors, or any streets. Just nothing but a field of life, as God once made it, with a sweep of evolution before your eyes. For that concept alone in the song, it is one of the most beautiful pieces on the album. "Come" ends the collection appropriately with a dream-like interpretation of an angel leading you to a happy and forgiving world. The end of the album is the Morning all over again. Well, the Bath in terms of album sequence.
If I ran the album, this would have been Lemon Jelly's concept album as an ode to one day, made from just three EPs representing Lemon Jelly's hellos. The Bath will be in the middle for that to happen. Lost Horizons and `64-`95 were such adventures that we want to know where it will take us. www.lemonjelly.ky, time-wise, ,may sem a little too long, but it is going to take you a while to get into the trip. Lemon Jelly has that charm. So, if you heard their EPs and only, then you are just learning all about the crazy, quirky, and overall rare charm of Lemon Jelly. The crash course is when you buy their further concept-based recordings. That's where the real vacations begin.
The Bath: 6.25/10, Yellow: 7.75/10, Midnight: 8/10
Overall Rating Average: 7.25/10
Free Music Review: Sublemony Fun
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD is sure to put a smile on your face - a nice change from the dark oily cloud that hangs over much of today's 'pop' music. The CD has electronic elements, and samples, throughout. But there is subtle and sinewy guitar play, along w/ rhapsodic keyboards and a solid bottom (bass and percussion) on most tracks. This music, on one level, is great fun (e.g., "Tune for Jack" which samples an Australian "Crocodile Hunter" type narrator who's just spotted the 'Patagonian Sea Horse'). On another level, when you crank the volume and the music flows, you begin to appreciate how subtle, and densely layered, this music can be. In fact, the first several times I listened to this CD, it seemed, on successive listens, that I was hearing certain tracks for the first time (again). You hear a certain catchy bass line, keyboard or guitar lick the first time and then, the next time, you find yourself getting turned on by other elements of the song (good head music, dig?). The sonic treatments are truly sublime. I may be wrong, but some of the harmonics seem to be at a pitch just beyond the human auditory range - my dogs, who get really mellow when I play this CD, seem to confirm this theory. It's easy to "like" this CD but if you give it a chance (and more than a few listens), you'll find a treasure trove (or english garden) full of aural delights here.Free Music Review: Enchanting
Hit: 4 Stars
Lots of eloquent praises have already been sung on this page about the gleeful and utterly entrancing album that is "lemonjelly.ky", but I have to put my two cents in since I find it to be one of the most delightful and relaxing albums I have heard recently. The opener, "In the Bath", is in my opinion the strongest point on the album. It skips through fairly familiar territory for most fans of downtempo or IDM but it is a catchy tune that makes great party music. The rest of the album has an overall slower pace, which makes it more suited perhaps for being played in the background when you have a few friends over for cocktails and board games. "Homage to Patagonia" combines a soothing melody and ambient feel with a unique Eastern theme that makes it my candidate for second-best song on the album. The samples scattered throughout the rest of the song make for amusing listening, such as the guitar instruction intertwined with the beats of "The Staunton Lick", or "Nervous Tension"'s appropriation of what sounds like samples fron a mainstream "How to Meditate" record from 1963. Overall a solid buy if you are into the likes of Tipsy, Thievery Corporation, or Noonday Underground's instrumental work.Free Music Review: gorgeous artwork AND gorgeous sounds
Hit: 4 Stars
As a new listener of "electronic" music, I wasn't sure what to expect from this album (which I had purchased based on the reviews here.) Being pleasantly surprised is a bit of an understatement! I was wowed, not only because of this album's accessibility, but because of the way it sucks you in and creates an atmosphere. That is vague, sorry... each song is different but similar enough to the others that a definite mood is created. There are bleeps and blips and drum loops and snippets of people talking, but they're all blended in such a way that isn't annoying and forced. Everything flows - due primarily to the catchy rhythms and clever melodies. I've listened to this album while cleaning the house and at bedtime because at a lower volume, lemonjelly.ky is very relaxing. But just yesterday I was listening to it while speeding along the highway and the album was much more exciting, which surprised me. I thought it would warrant a nice, relaxing car trip, but instead it just made me want to drive faster! So I guess Lemon Jelly figured out a way to create an album that would suit any mood. That's success in my book!
Free Music Review: Beautifully bizarre...
Hit: 4 Stars
If you liked Lemon Jelly's wonderfully eccentric "Lost Horizons" CD then this is your next stop - a compilation of their first three EP's which is, in parts, even more "off the wall" but which like "Lost Horizons" is underpinned by such superb tunes and clever production that it just flows from start to finish.
Categorising this music is a hopeless task - what can you say about "Nervous Tension" other than it's a self-help monologue set to an insidious down-beat backing track that, first time, through will leave you completely bemused but which, despite its stupidity, hypnotically draws you back to hitting the replay button... or, "A Tune for Jack" with its ridiculous spoken opening and its loops of a child singing "ooh baby me" and a chap saying "and a big fella too" set to a wonderfully relaxing tune other than that it's equally, hypnotically addictive... too clever? too naïve? or, just inspired?
In the end, the best thing to do is just to lie back and enjoy it all and, on the way, marvel at this slice of brilliantly odd, beautifully bizarre chill out music.