- Audio CD (30 Oct 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: XL
- ASIN: B00004XN08
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 17,447 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. The Bath EP: In The Bath |
| 2. The Bath EP: Nervous Tension |
| 3. The Bath EP: A Tune For Jack |
| 4. The Yellow EP: His Majesty King Raam |
| 5. The Yellow EP: The Staunton Lick |
| 6. The Yellow EP: Homage To Patagonia |
| 7. The Midnight EP: Kneel Before Your God |
| 8. The Midnight EP: Page One |
| 9. The Midnight EP: Come |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Lemon Jelly is a new addition to the pantheon of leftfield downtempo classics, a group to file alongside Air, Kid Loco and every Café Del Mar album so far. Lemonjelly.ky is actually a collection of the Lemon Jelly duo's three EPs so far. This album echoes with the ghosts of lost 1950s easy listening icons, plundering some of the daftest samples this side of a De La Soul record, rippling with a lavish, sun-kissed tropical aura. This is music so special you'll want to throw open all your windows every time you hear it. There's a wonderful childishiness about much here: the story-time voices, the Bagpuss breaks, the nostalgic whimsy for an age when music was utterly free of pretensions or pensiveness. "His Majesty King Raam" and "In The Bath" serve up a warm comedy that's wry, affecting and utterly compelling. "The Staunton Lick" and "Kneel Before Your God" raise the tempo to a funky slouch. And when it's all over, you'll be left wondering whether there'll ever be room in your heart for anything else. This is essential.--Calvin B Bush
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
You know when something just fits - I've had this for a long time now and it's still my favourite, something to come home to relax to, something that my friends go 'Oh, what's this?' when I put it on and a regular feature on the daily commute.
It's just so much FUN!
Staunton Lick is the best - it just grows so well - and impossible to turn off when it comes on. King Rahm - beautiful. Homage to Patagonia - twinkly. In the Bath - gorgeous.
These guys did a great job. I'm envious of their ability to actually find a new twist on music. Sure, they're going to be lobbed into the chillout section, but it's not quite right - they're far more into having fun than lying around listening to banal washy chord changes.
I hope that they're still doing the gatefold sleeve - it cost a lost money originally, but I think that they've probably recouped the expense - it's so bloody good.
A complete package. And the penultimate track (which I'm listening to now) - Cole Porter meets the dancefloor is my take on it.
You will not regret buying this album if you've got this far.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Brilliant. Care-free music for those moments of calm and tranquility. However, I'm not going to pigeon hole this album into that ever burgeoning genre known as 'Chill-Out' because there seems to be a glut of them at the mo. So instead I class it as bizarre serene downtempo breaks (anyone come up with that before?!). Yes I agree with one reviewer here who likens it to Mr Scruff but with a distinctly different sound.
Personal favourite is Staunton Lick which could easily have come form Nightmares On Wax's album 'Car boot Soul'. By the way that's another essential album. Both of these are truly sublime in its truest meaning:'awakening feelings of awe and veneration'.
Just go and buy it now. For the sake of humanity music like this should be heard by all those feeling jaded and disillusioned with the state of our modern 'pop' (read 'pap') music.
When's the next release guys????
Personal favourite is Staunton Lick which could easily have come form Nightmares On Wax's album 'Car boot Soul'. By the way that's another essential album. Both of these are truly sublime in its truest meaning:'awakening feelings of awe and veneration'.
Just go and buy it now. For the sake of humanity music like this should be heard by all those feeling jaded and disillusioned with the state of our modern 'pop' (read 'pap') music.
When's the next release guys????
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
You know exactly what you're gonna get from the cover. Nice music, very well produced too, that you can just kick back and relax too. Except 'A Tune for Jack' and 'Homage to Patagonia' seem to have swapped places on my copy. This album has enough levels of sound, with just the right amount of surprising twists in the music to not let it just blur into your audio background. You will be *listening* to this, not playing it to make a bit of background noise, and forget it's there.
That said, Lemon Jelly are well named in that it's a tiny bit sickly, and bit too twee in places, with samples of children singing, and making snoring sounds with a synth. A bit too look-at-me for my taste, but despite that, it's become a constantly played CD for me! Definitly worth a buy.
That said, Lemon Jelly are well named in that it's a tiny bit sickly, and bit too twee in places, with samples of children singing, and making snoring sounds with a synth. A bit too look-at-me for my taste, but despite that, it's become a constantly played CD for me! Definitly worth a buy.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Rubbish
What a waste of money. I've heard stuff like this a dozen times. It's like listening to nursery rhymes. The melody is like a baby mobile that you put above a cot. Read more
Published 4 months ago by handy andy
Beautifully bizarre...
If you liked Lemon Jelly's wonderfully eccentric "Lost Horizons" CD then this is your next stop - a compilation of their first three EP's which is, in parts, even more "off the... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by nicjaytee
Amazing
Bought on a whim.....so glad I did as this is without a doubt the best album I've bought all year.
Highlights for me - In The Bath, which is gorgeous. Read more
Highlights for me - In The Bath, which is gorgeous. Read more
Published on 26 April 2008 by mookster
A Big Bright Cloudless Sky
There is not a single situation that I have been in where playing this album would have been out of place. Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2008 by Jes
Electro-Teletubbies go cloud-hopping
The word chillout has become a term of mild derision these days, but the album ky captured the zeitgeist of 2000 in many ways. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2006 by John Tree
a grower
I was always totally blown away by LH and it's taken a long time for me to come round to ky and I now find it easily on a par with LH in terms of beautifully chilled gentle mind... Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2006 by Hill Walker
An Exelent Album
After hearing "Homage to Patagonia" on Jamie Olivers "school dinners", I immidietly went to hmv (sorry amazon :( ) and bought this cd. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2005 by Tom
Utterly Fantastic......
You can believe all of the (well written) reviews here...a superb album. Everytime I play this album, without fail someone says 'Whats that? Its brilliant! Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2004 by MrGeezer
Wow fun chilling
Lemonjelly its got a funny name to go with it as well.This album was randomly bought because i needed some chilling albums alongside with all the trance i have. Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2003 by Jamie E. I. Wright
Light-hearted, romantic and sunny
A compilation of three Lemon Jelly EPs on one disc full of love and massive beats. In my opinion the concept is similar to Wagon Christ's "Tally Ho! Read more
Published on 22 July 2003 by Saboteur
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