Considerably prettier than the majority of the hard-edged mash-ups cascading from LEMON JELLY'S intriguing "'64 - '95" album, "Make Things Right" is a mellifluous and upbeat (if not quite mellow) affair starring positively redemptive vocals from Mercury Music Prize Nominee Terri Walker. It's soulful and languid and oneof the more elegant shapes to have set in Fred and Nick's Jelly mould of late.
Sticking around for fascinating new track "A Personal Message To You From Our Chairman" is recommended too. This slice of bizarre enigma is (allegedly) culled from a speech given by the Chairman of Impotent Fury Records & Tapes (hmm...off on Patagonian tour dates again, are we lads?) featuring a voiceover that recalls both the paranoid misinformation of early Cabaret Voltaire and the weird 'guest' vocalists employed by David Byrne and Brian Eno on their "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" outing. It's clammy and hypnotic and - whether it's a piss-take or not - is every bit as stimulating as the A-side.
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All of which amounts to the fact that the intelligent court jesters of dance have done it once again. Lemon Jelly remains a quirkily essential entry on the discerning menu and one that continues to attract when other desserts have lost their flavour.
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