Short Reviews [The Lemon Clocks - 2023 - "The First Ten Years"]

Everyone into music knows that Fruits de Mer are one of the most important labels around, and also, they put on amazing festivals every year where there are lots of goodies handed out, and many more to be won. 2023 saw The Nineteenth Dream of Dr. Sardonicus three-day festival in Cardigan, Wales, and one of the freebies last year was this CD which contains a total of 22 tracks from the band’s career to date, two of which were previously unreleased. It works through their albums in chronological order, and even contains six songs from their newest album which was only released the previous year. The band describe themselves as a mix of psychedelic Beatles, Byrds, Kinks, Chocolate Watch Band, 13th Floor Elevators, but in reality, this only tells part of the story as these guys are the living musical embodiment of a time which has long gone by. This is the perfect introduction in that it provides a large amount of music from across their first six albums, but there is of course the danger in that there is so much here that possibly people will not use this as a way to discover those albums and purchase them but instead just stick with this. That would indeed be a shame, but although this was originally given out at the festival it is also now available to purchase from Jeremy’s where one can discover not only The Lemon Clocks, but Jeremy’s own solo recordings and so very much more. If you enjoy this style of music but have yet to come across The Lemon Clocks then you are definitely missing out.