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"My friend Jack eats sugar lumps... Sugar man hasn't got a care." It's understandable if these lyrics--sung by a vocalist who sounds like a mischievous 14-year-old British girl over a perky bump-bump-bump-ba-dump-pa guitar riff--make you think that the current psychedelic-pop revival has gone a bit too far. But Death by Chocolate, who top their polite lounge-exotica tunes with a thick frosting of hallucinogenic sound effects, are weird and charming enough for you to forgive their derivativeness. Compared with their American counterparts in the retro-psych Elephant 6 scene, Death by Chocolate are less concerned with wr
"My friend Jack eats sugar lumps... Sugar man hasn't got a care." It's understandable if these lyrics--sung by a vocalist who sounds like a mischievous 14-year-old British girl over a perky bump-bump-bump-ba-dump-pa guitar riff--make you think that the current psychedelic-pop revival has gone a bit too far. But Death by Chocolate, who top their polite lounge-exotica tunes with a thick frosting of hallucinogenic sound effects, are weird and charming enough for you to forgive their derivativeness. Compared with their American counterparts in the retro-psych Elephant 6 scene, Death by Chocolate are less concerned with writing perfect pop songs than with simply creating groovy mood pieces; many of the tracks here are built around hypnotic riffs or spoken words. "A, B & C" merges a Doors-like keyboard roll with a sweetly odd recitation of the alphabet ("G is for Gregorian, the ritual music named after Pope Gregory I"). If you ever thought Alice needed a better soundtrack for skipping around Wonderland's Technicolor garden, this is it. --Lisa Gidley
Album Description
Like Kahimi Karie or The Monkees, Death By Chocolate create playful pop that is deceptively simple and sweet. And, like you'd expect from English teenage girls, they sing songs about pop culture, candy and psychdelic drugs. Led by lead singer Angela Faye Tillett's runaway train of thought lyrics. DBC cover The Smoke's '60's mod classic 'My Friend Jack' which appeared on Jet Set's compilation CD. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.
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Manufacturer: Jet Set Records
Release date: 23 January 2001
EAN: 0604978003423 UPC: 604978003423
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