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Spirit Phone

Lemon Demon

29 February 2016

Average
7.2
Ratings
13
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Tracklist 27 tracks, 1:43:26
  1. 1Lifetime Achievement Award6:07
  2. 2Touch-Tone Telephone4:43
  3. 3Cabinet Man4:23
  4. 4No Eyed Girl4:20
  5. 5When He Died4:34
  6. 6Sweet Bod4:11
  7. 7Eighth Wonder4:42
  8. 8Ancient Aliens4:16
  9. 9Soft Fuzzy Man2:54
  10. 10As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It2:53
  11. 11I Earn My Life3:11
  12. 12Reaganomics3:32
  13. 13Man-Made Object3:38
  14. 14Spiral of Ants6:01
  15. 15Angelfire (Bonus Track)3:41
  16. 16Angry People (Bonus Track)4:54
  17. 17Cabinet Man (Demo) (Bonus Track)2:41
  18. 18Cat Hacks (Bonus Track)3:07
  19. 19Crisis Actors (Bonus Track)4:48
  20. 20Geocities (Bonus Track)3:25
  21. 21Gravitron (Bonus Track)0:53
  22. 22Kubrick and the Beast (Bonus Track)2:44
  23. 23Moon’s Request (Bonus Track)2:21
  24. 24Pizza Heroes (Bonus Track)1:31
  25. 25Redesign Your Logo (Bonus Track)4:21
  26. 26Sweet Bod (Bonus Track)4:14
  27. 27You’re at the Party (Bonus Track)5:21

Reviews

Rated 10/10

Goddamn *somebody's* listened to a lot of Devo. I might have to give this another spin, paying more attention to lyrics, because I gotta be honest with myself that I probably wouldn't give this the time of day if I didn't already have a lot of goodwill for the guy who made it, and I know from past experience that there's going to be stuff in here that rewards close listening.

EDIT: yeah alright this album's got the goods. I'd stopped before the bonus tracks on the first listen, and turns out they whip. I forgot that bonus track means something different when it's an album from the digital age

Rated 6/10

I didn't hate this, but didn't really love any part of it, either.

Rated 10/10

Mad as a box of frogs, and a whole heap of fun. I sometimes worry about the brain that created Lemon Demon, but not for long!

Rated 10/10

The vocals are okay, and the melodies don't break with convention, but they are extremely well executed and the lyrics add all the novelty I could ever want.

Rated 4/10

Sounds very dated for a 2016 album,

Rated 10/10

I didn't realise that an album could be intensely irritating in a good way. Reminds me of Mansun and Prefab Sprout, but playful and a bit more 8-bit. Goes all over the place but is somehow gestalt.

I love saying gestalt at the moment. I don't really know what it means.

Rated 8/10

This album reminds me a bit of Bo Burnham in that it's comedic pop rock from a dude that made it big through viral videos on the internet. Lemon Demon were the band responsible for that viral video "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" in 2005. The whole album is like that. Kinda catchy pop music that doesn't take itself too seriously. Full of NES sounds and electronica, but not so much as to be annoying. It's not bad.

Favourite songs: Angelfire, Touch-Tone Telephone, Cabinet Man, Pizza Heroes, Sweet Bod, When He Died, I Earn My Life, Reaganomics, Angry People, Crisis Actors, Geocities

Least favourite songs: Spiral of Ants

4/5

Rated 8/10

Another Neil Cicierega album? Man it's like I'm a young man again. Cabinet Man is infectious as hell! a fine internet time.