Tracklist: 01 Intro 02 '88 aka Come Down On Me 03 '68 aka Only Time 04 '93 aka Don't Stop Now 05 '95 aka Make Things Right 06 '79 aka The Shouty Track 07 '75 aka Stay With You 08 '76 aka The Slow Train 09 '90 aka A Man Like Me 10 '64 aka Go 11 Credits
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.[/code]
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