Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
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Free Music Notes for Lost Horizons
Free Music Review: A little evolved
Hit: 4 Stars
I picked up both Lemon Jelly CD's at the same time, after looking for them in local shops for a while. Thanks CDepot. The .ky compilation is great, but I think Lost Horizons represents a more concrete sound. Often with beautifully bright and bouncy strummed and plucked acoustic guitars layered over strings, synths and bounding beats, there is an overwhelming 'sunny' day feeling to the album. The production is top notch - almost every sound is perfect and every rhythm and melody well written and infectious. The album relies more on melody than beat. However, beat heads will not be denied pleasure.
Everything is well programmed, and often extremely happy. Much the same mood as .ky, just better.
One of the things that struck me, besides the happiness of it all, was the excellent way in which the tracks progressed. Many tracks reaching 7, 8 minutes long, and totally transforming in the process. They will take a melody and rhythm and in 5 seamless seconds turn it up to epic levels and bring it back down without sacrificing their fluid serenity.
Many people say that Lemon Jelly is simple, however this CD is actually quite complex, often with several layered moelodies on top of several layered rhythms. The CD at no point sounds flat or minimal, and is actually quite warm and full.
If you're a fan of the first album, get this. It's an excellent playful album with happy, well produced music that avoids being cheesy for it's sheer quality.
Free Music Review: Granola-tech? Or just plain good music?
Hit: 4 Stars
According to the sticker on my promo copy of this CD, Rolling Stone likes it (even though I heard they hated Aphex Twin's twisted masterpiece Drukqs), and it's not hard to tell why. This is techno even baby boomers would love, full of folksy acoustic instruments and gentle, childlike humor - Boards Of Canada vs. the Soggy Bottom Boys.The album is conceived as a piece with an inner logic, unlike Lemonjelly.ky, which was compiled from previously released EP's. Just as things reach a giddy peak with "Nice Weather for Ducks," doubt is introduced with the creepy "Experiment No. 6." It's deliberately jarring. The rest of the CD seems to accept doubt as part of life and finds reason to resume celebrating anyway. A lot of classical composers don't pull that type of thing off, let alone electronic artists.
Lemon Jelly don't hop genres, they transcend them. This is good music, whether you're a rocker, an IDM'er, or whatever.
Free Music Review: (ORB + Cafe del Mar CD + Layo & Bushwacka) /3
Hit: 4 Stars
To me, this CD is like a newer version of the ORB with a bit of house music essence and ibiza taste. For some reason, though, I feel this CD is more of a hiking type, rather than the beach mood...I like it very much, and I still listen to it after several times.
To be really honest, I think nowadays, it is getting quite hard to listen through an artist's album. After a few tracks, you get the idea how the whole thing goes. You've been there, done that, seen them, listened to them.
But this album has passed that criteria.
Smoothly and carefully arranged with decent sound quality.
Quite nice to listen to it, after some hard night out, or getting up and having a nice cup of coffee in a sunny Sunday morning.
I estimate that I can listen ot it six months more, if not 10.
Free Music Review: Music for apartments with amoeba tables and molecule clocks
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD is great fun. Lemon Jelly combine incongruous fragments and loops, layering on their sometimes silly "found" vocals, spicing it up with elements of trip-hop and the lounge revival and ambient and plain ol' psychedelia...While in the end their sound-collages are pretty much unclassifiable, they all have an indelible stamp: acoustic instruments playing cool syncopations in a hypnotic way. And the packaging of their CDs is great, like a series of lost early 1960s LP artworks. The stunningly designed CD case of "Lost Horizons" is too big to fit on normal CD racks. And that's fitting, because there's something epic and outsized about the songs on "Lost Horizons".Free Music Review: Delightful listening
Hit: 4 Stars
I looked everywhere on the sleeves of both albums to see if there were any common contributors between this happy, hook-filled paean to the coda and Chumbawumba, but alas, found none. Surely there must be some connection, as several tracks are clearly related stylistically (the long list of cities in "Ramblin' Man," the horns on "Ducks" and "Elements", etc.).Great driving music, too. If you don't mind that a song doesn't have a beginning, a middle, and an end in the traditional sense, and you love catchy pop-inspired hooks, then you should hear this album. Repeatedly.