Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
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Free Music Notes for Lost Horizons
Free Music Review: Quirky Brit humor from those lemon tarts
Hit: 3 Stars
How do you complain when a band delivers more of exactly what you'd expect? Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen (Lemon Jelly) caused quite the stir last year when their imminently collectable vinyl EPs (for Britain still clings to records) finally came together with a similarly glossy packaged LemonJelly.ky album. Fitting, as their vinyl-obsessed cut and paste folktronica, cheeky chillout more for grinning than grooving, is just the sort that dance anoraks love to admire on their alphabetized shelving units. So here we have their first proper album, and it's more of the same, Brit humor to the fore and jangly guitars right behind. Parping horns add to the "Do de do de do" chorus on "Elements," there's doctor dialogue on "Experiment No. 6," passé' astronaut chatter clogging up the jaunty "Spacewalk," though backed by funky jazz breaks and slick beep breakdown. And if you want to hear the lyric "All the ducks are swimming in the water," well there's "Nice Weather For Ducks." The brightest of the bunch would be "Ramblin' Man" as a joyous flute accompanies the list of locales.
Lost Horizons sounds too quirky for most people, which certainly justifies their niche appeal. Yet their talent suggests a classic in the vein of The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" coming someday...
For fans of: Bent, The Orb
Free Music Review: Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Hit: 3 Stars
Lemon Jelly's second album, LOST HORIZONS, starts off on the right foot: "The Elements" has all the qualities that made their first album special. Mellow melodies, humorous samples, feel-good vibes. "Space Walk," as well, has a piano intro that immediately puts you in the spacy mood that soon explodes into a space party. But the tracks that follow strangely fail to ignite much passion or interest. "Return to Patagonia" has a nice jazzy saxophone tooting through it, but then sort of dissolves into disorganization. "Nice Weather for Ducks" starts off great, but then... repeats itself until you want to shoot all those ducks. The album as a whole feels as if it was rushed into production, instead of having more time to develop. But the time we get to the meat of "Experiment Number Six," we've long lost interest. And that's a pity, since there are musical ideas in these tracks that could have been better and more fully explored. As it is, LOST HORIZONS is a good, but deeply flawed album.Free Music Review: Ambient Fluff
Hit: 3 Stars
Lemon Jelly is not what I look for in a downtempo chill out cd. This cd is more like something that you would here in the background at a day spa or something. And for that it is good enough to get 3 stars. This album is pure etherel ambient fluff. If you like that type of music than this album is for you. There is a lot of acoustic guitar in here, which I like. But there is also a lot of airy meaningless ambient sythisizer, which I don't like. This cd should NOT be compared to the likes of Thievery Corporation, OM label artists, or other big name chill out heroes. I do however like the 4th song on the cd "Return to Patagonia". But it is so painful to get thru the first 3 that I just can't reccomend this disc.Free Music Review: Could this album sound the way that prozac feels?
Hit: 3 Stars
On the surface Lost Horizons has the blase character of an overproduced glee club medley. While I have never used Prozac, I suspect that the effervescent orchestration and utopian vocalizations found here are morally equivalent to the preternatural emotional equilibrium that the drug is purported to provide. Still, it is clear that something darker is probing the periphery. I mean, nobody can be this upbeat, and no drug can fend off every last tendril of panic, right?Many reviewers find Lost Horizons impossible to resist. Despite the palpable edginess of the album, I cannot endure its ceaseless melodic boosterism.
Free Music Review: Short of great
Hit: 3 Stars
3 1/2
This a a fun IDM-type album that flows well and contains some beautiful passages, but over the entire course becomes somewhat repetitious with inconsequential sound clips against the backdrop of a bit too much dead space.