Review Of Lemon Jelly – sixty four-95
Track checklist:
’88 AKA Come Down On Me
’sixty eight AKA Only Time
’ninety three AKA Don’t Stop Now
’95 AKA Make Things Right
’75 AKA Stay With You
’seventy six AKA The Slow Train
’90 AKA Man Like Me
’sixty four AKA Go
North London duo Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen AKA Lemon Jelly top selling return with their individual company of downbeat madness, melody and kooky humour.
They’ve come a protracted means considering the fact that 2000’s debut album “KY”, a compilation of their first three constrained 10″ vinyl EP’s. A quickly increasing fanbase and the discharge of 2002’s “Lost Horizon’s” have been quickly accompanied by a Brit and Mercury Music Prize nominations. All of this may have indubitably piled the rigidity on for his or her subsequent album launch, ’64-’ninety five, outfitted round a variety of samples spanning those very dates.
The boys appear to had been up for the crisis offering a totally common Lemon Jelly album but unlike one we’ve viewed formerly. Whilst there is nonetheless the abundance of annoyingly catchy piano loops, samples and simplistic melodies that have served them so neatly in the beyond, ’64-’ninety five out of the blue appears to be like more mature. Whilst now not as right now likeable as “Lost Horizon’s” this guarantees superior longevity and is maybe your complete more beneficial for it.
Long, slow-constructing tracks like “Only Time”, “Don’t Stop Now” and the aptly titled “The Slow Train” are interspersed with Lemon Jelly’s very own guitar anthems, “The Shouty Track” which samples Scottish punks The Scars and the Chemical Brother tribute tune “Come Down On Me” which uses samples from the now defunct heavy-metallers Master of Reality. Additional contributions from Terri Walker and Star Trek’s very very own William Shatner make sure that the boys carry the roughly eclectic album we’ve now come to predict and love.
This is the 1st album they’ve made with an accompanying DVD, lovingly created by way of Airside, the layout corporate consisting of fifty% Deakin. All very incestuous but it really does work smartly. Now, to boot to the before extraordinary “Jelly” packaging & art, we're given visuals to toughen every one observe. How excellent of them!