Lemon Jelly - '64-'95

Lemon Jelly decided to release their last album in a DVD with all their songs animated, with quite haunting results. Do you remember the excellent clip for "Nice weather for ducks"? This is a bit similar, though simpler and a bit on the minimal side. Indeed, most are kind of slideshows, but let me explain track by track: "Come down on me" is the weakest video, a kind of Winamp animation destroyed by two female dancers in a horrible aesthetic; "Only time" shows a chain work of dreams in an animation that could be a bit more developed; "Don't stop now" is a show of geometric shapes raising and lowing towers with the rhythm of the song; "Make things right" - the first really good one - is another slideshow through a colored land in a black landscape, which reminds those kind of pictures you did as a child; "The shouty track" is the funniest video, heavy metal humanoids surrended by dirt and violence; "Stay with you" is at the same time the most beautiful song and video, multicolored waves creating shapes that dance in that hippy sea, like dolphins, ballerinas, tigers, stars....; "Slow train" is quite interesting for the minimal side of it: two or three colors, you can't really see the landscape through the trains are travelling...;"A man like me" is a continous homage to videogames, and the last slideshow, "Go", is quite arty, with two layers of moving pictures of grass, shores or contamination.

And, I don't know exactly why, this at first uneven work has become my favourite album of 2005. Really recommended. My nephews become hypnotized with this, and it's easy to know why.