Delgado's "Great Eastern" and Lemon Jelly "lemonjelly.ky" Any good?

delgado's record is lovely - if a little glossy. lots of nice strings and harmonies and that kind of jazz, but usually with pretty good effect.

Yep, I'm all about the Delgado's, (though I preferred them a bit more rough and ready on their debut Domestiques). The Great Eastern does have my favourite track of their on it - Fifteen Gliding Principles though, so mustn't grumble.

Lemon Jelly, not so sure. I liked their early stuff (Three Little Pigs, and that track with Hulk Hogan) but I've not heard their recent schtick.

Bought the Lemon Jelly in the sales yesterday, simply for the gorgeous packaging. Haven't listened to it yet, as I bought quite a bit. Great Eastern isn't bad, but it's not a patch on previous album Peloton. It's an album I listened to three or four times when I bought it, but feel no great need to hear it again.

"Great Eastern" was a disappointment for me. The production (done by the guy who did "Soft Bulletin" and "Deserters' Songs") is really slick and important-sounding but I just couldn't emotionally connect with the songs. The voices of both singers really bothered me. Too much of that detatched "cool" indie boy/girl thing. I thought the album would grow on me but I couldn't find the patience to sit through repeated listens.

Um. I don't think that Lemon Jelly and Green Jelly are the same band, Pete. :)

Am listening to Lemon Jelly right now. It is the perfect soundtrack for studying a javascript tutorial (which is what I'm supposed to be doing right now). Laidback, groovy, easy. Air without the vocoder, a more chilled Orbital, a more melodic Sabres. Silly spoken-word samples like you used to get on early Orbital and St Et albums. Lush piano. Shuffling percussion.

I could grow to like this a lot. Makes even learning javascript functions seem easy.

David - that's what I thought it might be like. Gotta get this, sounds good. The comments about the Delgados are kinda what I was expecting too - that Dave Fridmann sound (thinnish, off key-ish singer expressing 'wonderment'in a lush backdrop of strings/theremin/musical saw) is a touch past it's sell by date now maybe. I love 'The Soft Bulletin' though - here I think the production matches the 'Lips vision and creates something unique. I though Deserter's Song's didn't quite work, good though it is. What do I know?

the delgadoes are a little stiff and dull almost as if they were americans. i only listened to lemon jelly on the listening post for about five minutes and didn't like it much but i thought daft punk were rotten too.

Bought the Lemon Jelly album the other day... it's alright i guess, a bit reptitive at times although there are some dead nice bits (King Rahm is gorgeous).... Reminds me of Boards Of Canada without the intricacies. Not that much to go back to though... the vocal samples are a bit annoying by the end. Packaging is very nice although it doesn't fit on my cd rack cos it's too big. It think one would certainly be better off getting Boards Of Canada's "Music has the Right To Children" or something by Plaid because those albums are of the same mood but with a little more to them.

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