Do you realize how fucking amazing ‘Lemon Jelly’ is?For the past two months, I’ve been really overly obsessed with this Lemon Jelly group. I supposed you could classify them [Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin] as intellitechno [electronic intellectuals, yeah, I just made that up]. Most of their tracks tell a story, a complicated one. Brains and beauty—how could you go wrong with that? I only own the ‘Lost Horizons’ cd, but I have all of their other official releases as mp3s, as well as a few other not-so-official releases. Their music is like what you’d hear if you didn’t go to hell when you died. It’s stuff you could pop in the SUV cd-player when you’re with your mother and she’d like it, but you don’t want it to get as popular as Moby, so you don’t.
The album covers are simply amazing--as well as amazingly simple. Fred Deakin is also a graphic designer with taste and great perspective [as in world perspective]. The album covers can be seen here. The Lost Horizons cd cover is a beautiful continuum of a cityscape to ruralscape on one field of vision… and when you flip to the inside of the cover, it’s a similar view, but at night. Man, this guy knows his Illustrator. The computer-generated guru [the guy in white] is my favorite image [but the denim pocket with flavored condom tucked within ain’t too far behind]. What a great juxtaposition of technology and the sublime… hmm, but I guess technology can be sublime. …That’s what I mean, Lemon Jelly just makes you think. …and smile.
I don’t plug much other than glassblowing, but go out and download/buy a Lemon Jelly cd if you can find one [don’t even bother looking for their vinyls, they’re sold out and starting on eBay at $200].
Some obscure music mag said it best regarding their music, “A bright and shiny thing—like a thousand champagne bubbles popping in your head.”
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