November 30, 2004 | Posted by mark at 2:07 PM

She Says Our Souls Are Warm, Lives Reborn

Lost Horizons
Lemon Jelly - The Staunton Lick. Lemon Jelly are actually two dj/producers: Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen. Together they release chilled-out british beats-- the type of stuff you listen to on Sunday mornings, or when it's raining.

The Staunton Lick is built around a simple guitar lick, as introduced by our british instructor. Beats and guitar elements build on each other until we get this sun drenched happiness that sounds like it belongs in a Volkswagen commercial. There's even Bacharach-esque horns. It's a great little tune, and showed a lot of promise on the duo's debut album, LemonJelly .KY. Buy it from Insound

William Shatner (feat. Lemon Jelly) - Together. Lemon Jelly .KY was really just a collection of singles and 12"s, and it wasn't until 2002 that they dropped a proper album, Lost Horizons [buy it from Insound]. Aside from that, the duo has taken on some remixing/producing work. This highlight from Shatner's recent Has Been really shows the Jellies at their best. Emotive synth lines, crystaline guitar plucks, dusty break beats -- it's all here. And instead of the usual vocal samples, they use William Shatnerisms, which works exceedingly well, sounding as if it could've been off of one of their albums. This song isn't too far off from "Nice Weather for Ducks" off of Horizons.

Comments

the rest of the shatner album's actually pretty amusing too. ben folds produced it and there's a track with henry rollins and adrian belew. what more could you want?

Posted by: robotanders at November 30, 2004 3:26 PM

im diggin thier new video to the single 'stay with you' as seen on xl records site http://www.xlrecordings.com/broadcast/~staywithyou/

'soft' is another amazing little number by these chaps. i wish i knew where the sample came from in that song.

Posted by: matt at November 30, 2004 9:40 PM

the first time i heard lemon jelly was back when i worked at hmv. i distinctly remember losing my shit a couple times when playing it on the overhead. very clean, very nice.

Posted by: rollie at December 1, 2004 2:17 PM

"Beats and guitar elements build on each other until we get this sun drenched happiness that sounds like it belongs in a Volkswagen commercial."

Which it does, apparently: www.songtitle.info > Fall 2002. The name of the spot was "Driver's Tan."

Posted by: Jason at December 6, 2004 3:01 PM

that's crazy! I honestly had no idea.

weird.

thanks for digging that up.

Posted by: robot mark at December 6, 2004 3:07 PM
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