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...another of the album’s best numbers, with a lilting melody built upon a warm and soothing melody of voices. Listening to the track suddenly makes the listener see in Technicolor and imagine some particularly sappy European comedy, like the best music of similarly-inclined U.K. band St. Etienne. Voice enters only very late in the mix, and slowly the lines “I wanna stay with you / for the rest of my life” meander in such a manner as to somehow make them not seem trite...
...mostly due to its concept—something this ambitious needs to be pulled off in such a way as will better characterize the eras so openly and audaciously tapped for each song. Additionally, after the concept fails, the album wants for a totally blow-away single, which a band as low-key as Lemon Jelly seem unwilling to put forward...
Back in Cambridge, Marx fronted the pop/indie band Usigapop, blending musical influences in songs such as “kar-li,” based on a Korean folk song. As the owner of an extensive collection of 1990s Japanese underground dance music, Marx also called himself “DJ Dokidoki,” spinning Japanese house and loungecore music...
Sylvester and LeMay were also part of the band Forced Premise while at Harvard, a group comprised largely of Lampoon writers, including current Ibis Simon H. Rich ’06-’07 and Robert J. Dubbin ’04. Despite the group’s common interest in humor writing, there was nothing comedic about their music...
LeMay, in addition to being a student and co-founder of the label, is also part of a band that recently recorded its first album and will be touring this summer...