Review of lemon jelly 64 ninety five

Review Of Lemon Jelly – 64-95

Track checklist:

’88 AKA Come Down On Me

’sixty eight AKA Only Time

’ninety three AKA Don’t Stop Now

’ninety five AKA Make Things Right

’seventy nine AKA The Shouty Track

’75 AKA Stay With You

’seventy six AKA The Slow Train

’ninety AKA Man Like Me

’64 AKA Go

North London duo Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen AKA Lemon Jelly return with their entertaining emblem of downbeat insanity, melody and eccentric humour.

They’ve come a protracted means given that 2000’s debut album “KY”, a compilation in their first 3 constrained 10″ vinyl EP’s. A impulsively increasing fanbase and the release of 2002’s “Lost Horizon’s” have been simply followed by means of a Brit and Mercury Music Prize nominations. All of this might have undoubtedly piled the pressure on for their subsequent album unencumber, ’64-’95, equipped round a resolution of samples spanning the ones very dates.

The boys happen to were up for the hassle delivering a unconditionally basic Lemon Jelly album but not like one we’ve considered until now. Whilst there may be still the abundance of annoyingly catchy piano loops, samples and simplistic melodies which have served them so smartly within the previous, ’64-’95 right now seems to be more mature. Whilst no longer as immediately likeable as “Lost Horizon’s” this ensures more toughness and is perhaps the whole greater for it.

Long, sluggish-building tracks like “Only Time”, “Don’t Stop Now” and the aptly titled “The Slow Train” are interspersed with Lemon Jelly’s own guitar anthems, “The Shouty Track” which samples Scottish punks The Scars and the Chemical Brother tribute observe “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 possess William Shatner ensure that that the lads deliver the roughly eclectic album we’ve now come to expect and love.

This is the 1st album they’ve made with an accompanying DVD, lovingly bulk magazine b2b created through Airside, the layout service provider consisting of fifty% Deakin. All very incestuous but it in point of fact does paintings smartly. Now, additionally to the formerly targeted “Jelly” packaging & art work, we're given visuals to beautify every one song. How tremendous of them!