Product Description

First 'proper' album from North London duo Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin, better known as Lemon Jelly. A fusion of chilled out beats, breaks, downtempo and indie influenced dance.Features the single 'Space Walk' which was inspired by the lunar landings. 'Lost Horizons' follows on from their 2000 compilation 'Lemonjelly.KY' which featured the duo's first three EP's.

Track Listing

1. Elements
2. Spacewalk
3. Rambling Man
4. Return To Patagonia
5. Nice Weather For Ducks
6. Experiment No. 6
7. Closer
8. The Curse of Ka’zar

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5180 in Music
• Released on: 2002-10-07
• Number of discs: 1

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

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.

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.

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.