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Artist: Morcheeba
Album: Blood Like Lemonade
Label: Play It Again Sam
Rating: 4 stars
Morcheeba is often referred to as the music to which one would escape the “Decade from Hell”. Their carefree yet decadent sound when they started off in the mid-1990s rightfully earned them this reputation. Syke Edwards’ vocals had defined the band’s sound with an almost ethereal quality. Seven years after she quit the ensemble – and seven years of fading fortunes for the Godfrey Brothers, incidentally – Edwards returns to the band in their latest release Blood Like Lemonade, and it’s almost like they’re making up for the last two albums they put out. There is a feeling of the lost years being retold, in both their laid back musicality and in Edwards’ breezy vocal renditions. The opening track Crimson takes one back to the late 1990s and is the perfect welcome wagon for Edwards, even if it’s slow burn-like quality makes one wonder if it’d be more at home somewhere in the middle of the record instead. Even Though might not be one of the album’s highlights, but it makes for a good lead-in to the title track Blood For Lemonade. The lingering vocal quality Edwards brings back to Morcheeba’s music seems very at home in the album with the light pacing. Clear picks for favourites on the album have to be Mandala, I Am The Spring and Recipe For Disaster, with that familiar dreamy ambience that makes this – in typical Morcheeba fashion – perfect for a lazy summer day.
Album: Blood Like Lemonade
Label: Play It Again Sam
Rating: 4 stars
Morcheeba is often referred to as the music to which one would escape the “Decade from Hell”. Their carefree yet decadent sound when they started off in the mid-1990s rightfully earned them this reputation. Syke Edwards’ vocals had defined the band’s sound with an almost ethereal quality. Seven years after she quit the ensemble – and seven years of fading fortunes for the Godfrey Brothers, incidentally – Edwards returns to the band in their latest release Blood Like Lemonade, and it’s almost like they’re making up for the last two albums they put out. There is a feeling of the lost years being retold, in both their laid back musicality and in Edwards’ breezy vocal renditions. The opening track Crimson takes one back to the late 1990s and is the perfect welcome wagon for Edwards, even if it’s slow burn-like quality makes one wonder if it’d be more at home somewhere in the middle of the record instead. Even Though might not be one of the album’s highlights, but it makes for a good lead-in to the title track Blood For Lemonade. The lingering vocal quality Edwards brings back to Morcheeba’s music seems very at home in the album with the light pacing. Clear picks for favourites on the album have to be Mandala, I Am The Spring and Recipe For Disaster, with that familiar dreamy ambience that makes this – in typical Morcheeba fashion – perfect for a lazy summer day.
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