Review Of Lemon Jelly – sixty four-95
Track directory:
’88 AKA Come Down On Me
’sixty eight AKA Only Time
’93 AKA Don’t Stop Now
’95 AKA Make Things Right
’79 AKA The Shouty Track
’seventy five AKA Stay With You
’90 AKA Man Like Me
’64 AKA Go
North London duo Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen AKA Lemon Jelly return with their original logo of downbeat madness, melody and eccentric humour.
They’ve come a protracted means when you consider that 2000’s debut album “KY”, a compilation of their first 3 confined 10″ vinyl EP’s. A right now increasing fanbase and the release of 2002’s “Lost Horizon’s” had been simply accompanied by a Brit and Mercury Music Prize nominations. All of this will likely have no doubt piled the stress on for his or her subsequent album liberate, ’64-’95, built round a preference of samples spanning those very dates.
The boys seem to had been up for the obstacle supplying a wholly traditional Lemon Jelly album however unlike one we’ve observed earlier than. Whilst there is nevertheless the abundance of annoyingly catchy piano loops, samples and simplistic melodies which have served them so smartly inside the previous, ’64-’ninety five today seems to be greater mature. Whilst now not as all of a sudden likeable as “Lost Horizon’s” this guarantees higher toughness and is probably each of the better for it.
Long, sluggish-development tracks kpop trends like “Only Time”, “Don’t Stop Now” and the aptly titled “The Slow Train” are interspersed with Lemon Jelly’s possess guitar anthems, “The Shouty Track” which samples Scottish punks The Scars and the Chemical Brother tribute track “Come Down On Me” which makes use of samples from the now defunct heavy-metallers Master of Reality. Additional contributions from Terri Walker and Star Trek’s very very own William Shatner be sure that that the boys provide the type of eclectic album we’ve now come to count on and love.
This is the first album they’ve made with an accompanying DVD, lovingly created by using Airside, the layout organisation consisting of 50% Deakin. All very incestuous but it in fact does paintings well. Now, similarly to the before entertaining “Jelly” packaging & art, we're given visuals to give a boost to each one tune. How effective of them!