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Music : Lost Horizons
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Rating: 
- Just brilliant
The 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, superficial
I 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 both extremes rely on superficial emotion or the total lack of emotion. Both have a totally mechanical structure and both are based on lazy technique - mere pasting together of fragments on a rigid beat framework. There's no sense of the structural unity that good music needs to have, or the emotional depth that comes from a coherent structure and real feeling for the music being made.
That's true of so much modern music that many people seem to be unaware there can be anything else. Consequently an album like this sounds good as a chillout from the opposite extreme of the same pasted together attitude to music played faster than this.
Try listening to Indian music to find out what rhythm really is. And someone like Steve Reich or Philip Glass or Terry Riley to find out how repetition can be used powerfully in music. And to `chill out' try feeling your way into the depths of good music instead of skimming over the surface, which is the only option with this superficial paste-up of sounds.
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 to the listener, but if you fancy a 'trip' into an audio alternate universe, then this is most definitely the album for you.
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 quickly
I 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" (hmm, strange and a little chilling, but excellent), "Closer" and finally "The Curse of Ka'zar" are all great sounding tracks.
So, persevere and it will grow on you. It really is a great album.
- 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 both extremes rely on superficial emotion or the total lack of emotion. Both have a totally mechanical structure and both are based on lazy technique - mere pasting together of fragments on a rigid beat framework. There's no sense of the structural unity that good music needs to have, or the emotional depth that comes from a coherent structure and real feeling for the music being made.
That's true of so much modern music that many people seem to be unaware there can be anything else. Consequently an album like this sounds good as a chillout from the opposite extreme of the same pasted together attitude to music played faster than this.
Try listening to Indian music to find out what rhythm really is. And someone like Steve Reich or Philip Glass or Terry Riley to find out how repetition can be used powerfully in music. And to `chill out' try feeling your way into the depths of good music instead of skimming over the surface, which is the only option with this superficial paste-up of sounds.
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 to the listener, but if you fancy a 'trip' into an audio alternate universe, then this is most definitely the album for you.
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" (hmm, strange and a little chilling, but excellent), "Closer" and finally "The Curse of Ka'zar" are all great sounding tracks.
So, persevere and it will grow on you. It really is a great album.