56. Lemon Jelly - Lemonjelly.ky (2000)
The address of their website and possibly the cheekiest album title ever, Lemon Jelly's debut album sounds like you could indeed guzzle it down, it's mighty delicious. Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin use obscure, often BBC samples of yesteryear, chop them up and splatter over melodic trip-hop. Opener 'In The Bath' is a bit of a rascal: "What do you do in the bath?" it asks repeatedly, before the glorious 'Nervous Tension' gives quirky counselling over a bouncy melody. My first experience of Lemon Jelly though was on a CD that came free with Select Magazine and it included 'Page One', an insane track with insane beauty. Is asks of us:
Nothing. Very few people are able to imagine such a thing, to have nothing at all.
Well let us, you and I, try to imagine something a hundred times harder.
Not just to have nothing at all, but when there was nothing at all."
Just priceless!
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