Track Listing

1. In The Bath
2. Nervous Tension
3. Tune For Jack
4. His Majesty King Raam
5. Staunton Lick
6. Homage To Patagonia
7. Kneel Before Your God
8. Page One
9. Come

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5593 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-30
• Number of discs: 1

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

Customer Reviews

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. Staunton Lick (Everyone's favourite????) which is simply awesome. Page One - sublime

Im definitely going to be looking up more LJ now

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. The best, though is to be lying on the grass looking up at a big blue sky. Failure to enjoy this should be illegal. It is hard to pick out 'stand out' tracks because they all shine, however, 'a tune for Jack' with a ridiculous yet utterly loveable sample and a just wonderfully joyous piano is really rather special. So too is 'His Majesty King Raam' that takes you back to listening to a bedtime story - cleverly the sample merely introduces you to 'King Raam' leaving your imagination to do the rest. This is important, because albums which are so very special have a habit of also becoming very personal. It will take each listener on their own sun-filled slightly mad trip.

It ends with 'Come' with a voice so lush, a single word full of promise. Of course it is not really the end because you will have the CD on a loop!

None of this really matters, words can't do the music proper justice. If you like Royksopp and Boards of Canada but want more consistent joy then this is essential, in fact everyone - just buy it - you will understand!

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. The CD is a collection of the immensely talented duo's first three EP's along with some ace artwork, on the beautifully printed card sleeve (this style has become a trademark of their output).

There are Folk elements, Jazzy bits, sweeping strings, sequenced beats, it's hard to pin down the genre, but I can't imagine there are many who haven't heard at least some of this cut-up sampled masterpiece of weightless balletic grooves, because many tracks from the album became the favourites of TV producers, and seemed to be the staple for background music on makeover and property programs for years. But don't let that put you off... ky is a great eyelid movie soundtrack.

Most of the tunes have a humorous edge...in fact they broke new ground in the use of irreverent and amusing samples: baby talk (Tune for Jack), very dull guitar tutoring records (Staunton Lick), bits of a kids story read by a shakesperian actor (King Raam)... in many ways they wrote the rule book.

Lemon Jelly have a happy knack for cut n pasting their tunes into beautifully absorbing soundscapes. The album set the benchmark for downtempo... many tried to copy, but none bettered this seemingly effortless music. The CD is in my top ten of the last ten years, and the Jelly boy's best in my opinion. If you haven't heard this, do yourself a favour now ...
Music for chemical Teletubbies everywhere.