New Lemon Jelly album

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Anyone heard it? Been alternating it with the new Chemical Brothers album all day and I have to say I really, really like it :)

It's called '64-'95 and the songs all have a title like: '68 Aka Only Time but I haven't figured out the significance of the years/dates. The CD is packaged in typical lemonjelly fashion: gatefold thingy with cover notes in one side and CD in it's own little sleeve on the other side. Also true to form there's virtually nothing on anywhere to identify either the band or the name of the album on the cover :MILD: . A little sticker on the front says "This is our new album, it's nothing like our previous one". You're also encouraged to remove the sticker. Well, despite what they say it's recognizably lemonjelly but they do seem to have moved into a newer, more mature direction.

For me it's easily their best album yet. It's all much more coherent and there's less of the jokey samples and more "music". '68 AKA Only Time is a uniquely moving track for this type of music (electronica/downtempo/dance). '93 Aka Don't Stop Now has a wonderful sample from the classic '93 (ok - that makes sense) dance track "Waterfall" by Atlantic Ocean. All the tracks are stand outs IMO - rare in an album these days.

If you liked their previous stuff and if you generally like electronica, downtemp dance etc then I strongly recommend it. I haven't liked an album of this genre as much since Groove Armada's "Vertigo".

Michael.
 
I hate Lemonjelly, a pair of untalented tossers if ever there was one.

Did you know that they forced all the fans to wear 'Lemonjelly' T-shirts at one of their live snooze-fests, er, sorry, gigs, recently?

I can't begin to describe how crap & pointless I think they are.
 
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Have yet to listen to it but I did see a very poor review this week (S Times). Admired earlier work but said this was a weak effort lacking much of the innovation of earlier work.

Some sympathy with the untalented comment but lemonjelly.ky still brings a smile to my face - might not be talented in a musical sense but it has its place.
 
i think the dates refer to the years from which the main staple sample was taken

ie . gallagher and lyle . "i want to stay with you" was released in ... yep '75

not sure of the other samples will purchase on sat

although "shouty track " sounds a little like PIL and would make sense of the '79 ;)
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I think they are brilliant and innovative :)

I will be buying the new one too... eventually!
 
I have "KY". I too thought it was all very jolly at first. But it dawned on me that it's rather dull. I've listened to it only once in the past 2 years, so if anyone wants it, slip me a fiver, and it's yours.
 
Price reduced to £4.99.

Come on, someone must want it.

I don't know whether the identical T-shirts referred to above were paid for by the artistes, I would imagine that they probably were. What seemed a little "control freaky" to me was the insistence that they all had to wear one.
 
Ah no, sorry, CD.

That's another thing!!!

Those wacky funsters, "Lemonjelly", decided to make their CD packaging wider than normal, so it won't fit into a CD rack properly - you have to put it in at an angle, so it occupies the space taken up by three or four normal-sized CDs.

What a laugh, eh ... eh?!!!

Er, well no, actually. A genuine waste of space.

I'm not doing very well at selling this CD.
 
4.99 inc p&p, sold to the man with a bottle for a neck.

PM me your bank details devil old chap and I shall do electronic bank transfer for you.

:)
Cheers
Chris








The Devil said:
Ah no, sorry, CD.

That's another thing!!!

Those wacky funsters, "Lemonjelly", decided to make their CD packaging wider than normal, so it won't fit into a CD rack properly - you have to put it in at an angle, so it occupies the space taken up by three or four normal-sized CDs.

What a laugh, eh ... eh?!!!

Er, well no, actually. A genuine waste of space.

I'm not doing very well at selling this CD.
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Lemonjelly are ace. I shall be buying their new one shortly.... Will have to wait till Mrs Summit isn't looking she hates them. I like winding her up with the ducks track when she has a hangover
 
their first cd album was much better than their second (and third according to my brother). Sometimes you just can't improve on the original...
 

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