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Lemonade - Lemonade

This is our first album and it represents most of the material we wrote after the initial period of Lemonade where we improvised with drum machines, live instruments, and loop pedals. Each song was a total surprise for us, mostly the result of mistakes and accidents.

Posted 16th September 2009, 4:51pm in Track by Track, by Lemonade
Lemonade This is our first album and it represents most of the material we wrote after the initial period of Lemonade where we improvised with drum machines, live instruments, and loop pedals. Each song was a total surprise for us, mostly the result of mistakes and accidents. When we recorded it with our friend and producer Chris Coady we did mostly live takes in an effort to produce a record as close as possible to the raw energy of our live shows. The result sounds pretty much like an excellently recorded and mixed live set.

1 'Big Weekend'
This was one of the first tracks that we produced. After writing the big synth lead we just sort of went from there until it sounded like a party weekend that changes your brain forever.

2. 'Unreal'
We were listening to a Shaffel techno comp a lot at the time when we created this. Alex played some afro cuban percussion rhythms and Callan whacked a cymbal that we bought in Chinatown.... The whole thing became really spooky.

3. 'Nasifon'
Nasifon was the name of an arabic music shop in the raval neighborhood of Barcelona where we bought some CDs that inspired the track. This is our first time sequencing on a computer, prior to this we were just hitting drum machines live. We blow a broken party horn (dropped on a freeway in Montana, cruising at 80 miles per hour) through a delay at one of the song's many climaxes, and it has a really abrasive awesome tone which always lit up the room live.

4. 'Real Slime'
This was an attempt at making a really hyper grime track, but like all of our attempts at a particular sound it came out way different. When the lyrics were written there was no doubt in Callan's mind that everything he was saying was true.

5. 'Sunchips'
We actually sampled the sound of us hitting a bag of Sun Chips brand crisps for this song. Everything else happened about as incidental as that from the Gamelan bells to the bass drops and reverbed claps, and it came out sounding like some mutant dubstep.

6. 'Blissout'
Blissout started with a Goblin sample that quickly built into an epic track. Once Ben played the piano line on it, we knew we had written an old-skool rave anthem so at that point there was nothing left to do but drop a breakbeat. The voices we use at the end are of close friends and Alex's students at the music school he taught at.

'Lemonade' is out now through Sunday Best. Click here here to order a copy.

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