Lemon Jelly K.Y -Lemon Jelly

"What do you do, in the bath?"and so opens the Lemon Jelly album (or rather collection of E.P.s), K.Y.Jelly accompanied by a laid back swizzle of a drumbeat and soaring high notes. These people are silly; these people use samples like we would use toilet paper (luxury toilet paper, with double thickness and a nice perfume to boot) they really are very silly indeed. The first tune on the album, In the Bath; let us count the ways "in the bath" can be scratched, spinned, sampled, speed up, slowed down..oh no, let's not bother. A happy melange of country guitars (sounds like all your friends that ever thought they could play the ...  Read the complete review

If you're wondering what the title of this review has to do with Lemon Jelly KY, then maybe if I told you that Lemon Jelly had an album entitled "Lost Horizons", you'd make a bit more sense of it. This review is designed to cover the KY album, although I hope to write a review for Lost Horizons at a later date. Ky is actually a compilation of three Lemon Jelly EP's, taking sample tracks from each. Firstly lets look at the design (since this is a real unique charm with Lemon Jelly CD covers), the CD cover has a somewhat arty appearance and is best described as a red, fading to yellow background (from top to bottom) with circles, ...  Read the complete review

Anonymous dance bands with a sense of humour aren't exactly ten-a-penny these days, which makes the presence of Lemon Jelly a refreshing change to all the bland Euro-trance that is doing the rounds at the moment. Known for their sense of fun and wackiness, the London duo's first 'album' was actually a collection of their three three-track EP's that were released in the late 1990's. Combining a myriad of samples, it's best to think of them as The Avalanches, but even more laid-back... The first notable thing about the Lemon Jelly.ky album is its packaging. Psychadelic and very arty, it's obviously had a lot of thought ...  Read the complete review

I first discovered British duo Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin somewhere off the back streets in Camden, London while searching for a place to rest my weary head at 4 a.m. As my bleary eyes and ears began to focus on the music that was playing ("In The Bath"), I was immediately taken back to my favourite French DJs, the illustrious Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin from Air, whose combination of loungue pop grooves and downtempo beats on "Moon Safari" nearly brought me to an aural explosion. Needless to say, I rushed to the DJ at the lounge and shook him until he finally told me that it was "The Bath EP" by Lemon Jelly. Thus began ...  Read the complete review

They have already received a lot of good reviews on their first album and the new single (Space Walk/Return To Patagonia) and this new album is of no difference at all, it is even better. The album has a unique mixture of different moods and styles that make it difficult to classify them under specific genre but mainly you can say that they are no ordinary chill-out act in a very eccentric style. Most of the songs are inspired by either daily life simple things like in ?Nice Weather for Ducks? (based on children's nursery rhyme), or important history events like in ?Space Walk? (Inspired by the Apollo space missions). The full album track ...  Read the complete review