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Lost Horizons by: Lemon Jelly List Price: £10.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.48 You Save: £1.51 (14%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0634904016029 Label: Impotent Fury Manufacturer: Impotent Fury Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Impotent Fury Release Date: October 07, 2002 Studio: Impotent Fury Sales Rank: 3513 MPN: 40160 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: As anyone who's heard their exuberant debut album will tell you, Lemon Jelly are no ordinary chill-out act. Here the eccentric duo present their second full-length outing Lost Horizons, and it's every bit as good as their acclaimed debut, Lemonjelly.ky. Inhabiting a world of almost limitless playfulness, Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin make the sort of brassy, beautiful downtempo music that leaves the listener desperately trying to suppress a goofy grin. You see, Lost Horizons is that rarest of things: a focused, humorous and exciting chill-out album that stands up to repeat listens. Often this kind of tongue-in-cheek chillage can sound dull and contrived (or, worse, sickly and overbearing), but Lost Horizons is anything but tedious. It simply bristles with shimmering, sunny instrumentation (jaunty acoustic guitars, skippy beats, tinkling pianos, oh-so English brass band fanfares… even the odd harp), while quirky, oddball samples lurk round every turn ("Nice Weather For Ducks", for example, is a country-funk shakedown based around a sample from a children’s nursery rhyme). From the percussive space jazz of "Return to Patagonia" to the seductive, sleepy closer "The Curse of Ka’zar", Lost Horizons doesn’t so much glimmer, it positively shines. 2002’s best downtempo album? Almost certainly. --Matt Anniss Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Just brilliantThe last album that I got this addicted to was 'Mile Davis - Kind of Blue'. Its not that good but get this on yer ipod for the beach this summer. Rating:  - Uninspired, dull, pointless, superficialI have to agree with C.E. Rees' review. When this album started I thought for a moment it might be worth listening to. But then - nothing happened, and it happened over and over again. Some tracks are embarassingly bad, others have some hope of turning into music but the `musicians' obviously don't have a clue about composition. So why are the reviews of this album so polarised? Why do several people rate it highly, while others don't rate it at all? I think the solution is the concept of `chillout.' Contemporary music seems to be polarised into extreme agitation and extreme lethargy. Either ridiculously fast mechanical beats, or dull music in which virtually nothing happens - and the latter is called chillout. But ... Read More: Rating: - A big massive grin :-)If you haven't came across Lemon Jelly in your wanderings though music lala-land, then this is the album to embrace them with. It's a concept album of sorts, perhaps difficult to categorise within their genre... the same way the Might Boosh are within UK comedy... It can only be described as a mixture of smiles, happiness, rural/space/city landscapes, Saturday afternoons, home time from school, and the sound of ice cream vans outside your house.... A more mellow offering then the duo's 2005 release '64-95', but a classic album from the band who would rather play Bingo with their fans before a gig, than utilise the more traditional route of a support group. I won't even go through the tracks as they're subjective ... Read More: Rating: - So clever !This album is wonderful, and very clever. Rambling Man is quite brilliant, and for me, strangely evocative... LJ are very smart folks. Rating:  - It grows on you - very quicklyI have my son to thank for introducing me to this album - thanks Tim. He told me I would probably like this and he was right. I understand the review which Ms C Rees wrote. I voted in agreement with her, because I could see how she could reach the view she had. However, having played it a few times over the past days, I can honestly say that it is very, very good. It is better than most chill-out albums and I do like LJ's style, where there is some impish fun, which makes it more warm-in than chill-out! after these many plays, I can only pick out the first three tracks above the rest - "Elements", "Spacewalk" and, particularly, "Rambling Man", but the others - "Return To Patagonia", "Nice Weather For Ducks", "Experiment No. 6" ... Read More: |
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