I’m a rambling man’. Or so said Lemon Jelly on their deliciously tangy debut, ‘Lost Horizons’ – a similarly bizarre conflation of electronic astronautics and the quintessentially rural. In those days it was ‘ducks’ that grabbed our attention, but this time round it’s rocks, stones, meltwater, a bar of Kendal mint cake and more orienteering equipment that you can shake a stick at.
Film and Tevevsion composer, Andrew Phillips and his erstwhile rambling buddy, Marcus O’Dair withstand the hurly burly of the Great British elements for a remarkable and times, really quite beautiful trek through the airwaves with new album, ‘1 inch/ ½ Mile’ – a psychedelic past and futurescape of trickling electronica, wonky beats and hyper-real travel literature. Like missionaries from another dimension the lads offer up a curiosity shop of rucksacks, tents, maps, compasses and cellos, the gorgeous ‘Meltwater’ carving the kind of deep and enduring niche more commonly associated with glaciers, like Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ but with breaks, beats and all manner of foolish and unashamedly whimsical hocus pocus. Check out ‘The Door In The Wall’ for a rough indication of just how fun, rubbery and really quite fine it gets. ‘1 inch/ ½ Mile’ – a world of moonbeams, mushrooms and monitors. If only Syd Barrett had grabbed a tab of mint cake instead of acid.
Meet Grasscut – folding their pack-a-mack and wiping their feet at the doors of perception.
Released on July 05 2010.
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