'64 - '95
- Lemon Jelly
- Band Name: Lemon Jelly
- Record Label: XL / Beggars Banquet
- Release Date: Jan 25, 2005
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90Perhaps their best outing yet.
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It's breathtaking and essential listening for all fans of electronic music.
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90Being sampled by Lemon Jelly on this astonishing new album is nothing less than an honor.
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90It is a fantastic album, no less so than the one before it.
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90Though sampling has been done to death, the stealthiness which which Deakin and Franglen incorporate their borrowed material will be required study for wannabe producers and hop-headz; in that regard, it's on a par with the seminal Paul's Boutique.
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Another excellent offering.
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LJ retain their title as the world's premier inner-space invaders. [29 Jan 2005, p.58]
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80It's clear that Lemon Jelly have well and truly upped the ante.
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So it essentially comes down to the fact that "Come Down on Me" and "Go" are likely going to be two of the best tracks of the year, but that a great deal of '64-'95 is less likely to stick to memory.
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70Despite the wide range of musical styles used here, each one is absorbed into that unique Jellies sound, smoothed and polished almost beyond recognition into a sumptuous, unthreatening ambient groove with echoes of The Orb, Groove Armada and Zero 7.
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It takes their happily slanted electronic sound and infuses it with a sinister mood and heavy guitar sounds. [#8, p.106]
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70The tone is less whimsical, occasionally ecstatic, and at times reminiscent of big beat. [Mar 2005, p.91]
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It's an admirable creative stretch, but the resulting mash-ups are little more than pleasantly diverting. [4 Feb 2005, p.135]
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65'64-'95 succeeds when Lemon Jelly stick to their bread and butter: pleasant and facile ambience.
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60For all the wit, layered invention and easy-on-the-ear harmonies Deakin and Franglen bring to '64-'95, there's a corresponding lack of intrigue. [Feb 2005, p.94]
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60While a lot of '64-'95 works, much of it appears to arrive sporting ironic quote marks.
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None of the samples really evoke the years in question, and Lemon Jelly doesn't put the years in any kind of relevant order, so the overall point of '64-'95 seems a little vague.
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While their sounds are pleasant enough, where Lemon Jelly fall short most often is in their unimaginative arrangements.
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20Feels like a product of the past. Not the distant past, either, where at least its retrofits could be forgiven as homage. Lemon Jelly captures electronica circa 1993. [#67, p.102]
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JakeL10I've never had an album grow on me like this did - listen again, and again if necessary. It's stunningly brilliant.