Mild Euphoria Let's Dissolve
Format: CD.
Also available as: vinyl LP.
Year Of Release: 2001.
Label: Siesta.
Label reference #: Siesta 144.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M10896
Approximate release date: December 11, 2001.
Genres: Rock/Pop
Price: $12.59 [Out of Stock]
On Sale! (Usual price$13.99)
List price:$16.97
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Distributor/label description(s):
Siesta description:
Mild Euphoria's "Let's dissolve" is the latest in the series of highly original magazine-style productions from the team that brought you last year's Lollipop Train and Maria Napoleon LPs and the recent albums for siesta by Death by chocolate and David Candy.
Timetravelling costumed instrumental abstract expressionists Mild Euphoria stride a unique space between the almost mythical theme and incidental music of the late seventies english stockbroker belt television comedies ("The good life", "The rise and fall of Reginald Perrin") and Ennio Morricone's forays into the italian acid scene with maybe a 1962 dulux paint ad thrown in along the way.
Richly melodic, jazzy material such as Dudley Moore's highly refined "Morning walk" (from thirty is a dangerous age, Cynthia), the ebbulent Mild Euphoria original "Delicious pie", the classic Monochrome Set signature dish "Lester leaps in" and "spring song" (written by the absurdly underrated hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo) compliment perfectly stranger, more oblique selections such as the shimmering piece de resistance "Joyful", the dreamlike "Sound of chartreuse", the almost dissonant "Stay tuned" and the hallucinagenic title track.
so whether by psychedelic trip, elizabethan parody or religious pastiche, this eclectic juxtaposition of styles coagulates perfectly on to form a magical whole; achieved with a humour and artistry that pop has forgotten.
"Let's dissolve" is a triumph of the imagination. The most significant instrumental pop since "Telstar". Intelligent, stylish and great fun; it is the way pop should be.
one day all records will be made this way.
Track listing:
1. "One Day In Colour"
2. "Morning Walk"
3. "Joyful"
4. "Delicious Pie"
5. "The Sound Of Chartreuse"
6. "Lester Leaps In"
7. "Spring Song"
8. "Stay Tuned"
9. "Let's Dissolve"
10. "Knight's Castile"
11. "One Day In Colour"
Twee Kitten review of Let's Dissolve
by Keith Mclachlan
The band's name seems appropriate, I find myself easily imagining the reaction of the record company after these tunes were turned in for release and brave young artists Jeremy and John asked for an appraisal and well it came back 'mild euphoria'. Allegedly this is for kids and although this type of music may be exactly what the kids need, its coma-inducing effects might keep them from tagging subway trains, car-jacking or selling meth that they made with the chemistry set their parents got them for christmas and their mom's Allegra prescription. Of course had the name chosen been instead mild cholera then that might have been something celebratory but mild euphoria?!? perhaps for avid canasta players the run of a good number of hands might qualify but pop music usually demands more. For while some of it might sound like an audition tape to be the backing band of David Cassidy or maybe since they are British Simon Turner back in his teen-pop fandom days most of it sounds like the sort of wallpaper in the background of a Pink Panther movie, where Inspector Clousseau has just stepped in a can of paint instead of making love to the beautiful woman invariably bent on his destruction (likely I remembering things incorrectly). But are Pink Panther movies for kids? I saw them when i was a kid and the slapstick was funny but I am not sure it would be funny to kids today, but then what do I know I have never believed 'Willy Wonka' was much of a kids movie because I always found it a bit sinister and frightening not 'The Day After'-like frigthening but certainly more chilling than any of the 'Friday the 13th' movies. Mild Euphoria then don't seem to have their place secured, likely no one under 15 will hear this, I suppose a 15-year old is still a child but they surely won't be begging Paul Oakenfold for a spin at one of his 3000 dollar per hour club appearances, but then maybe they should take the music to the kids and prove me wrong book a tour of the elementary schools all across the world and realize just how out of touch they are when the kids start screaming for DMX and 'Break Stuff'. Oh and an aside, the best Mild Euphoria songs are actually on the Reverie Siesta compilation called 'Dream Drops' and they do not reappear here so balance your options carefully.
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Format: CD.
Also available as: vinyl LP.
Year Of Release: 2001.
Label: Siesta.
Label reference #: Siesta 144.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M10896
Approximate release date: December 11, 2001.
Genres: Rock/Pop
Price: $12.59 [Out of Stock]
On Sale! (Usual price
List price:
1 unit in cart. Remove from cart.
Distributor/label description(s):
Siesta description:
Mild Euphoria's "Let's dissolve" is the latest in the series of highly original magazine-style productions from the team that brought you last year's Lollipop Train and Maria Napoleon LPs and the recent albums for siesta by Death by chocolate and David Candy.
Timetravelling costumed instrumental abstract expressionists Mild Euphoria stride a unique space between the almost mythical theme and incidental music of the late seventies english stockbroker belt television comedies ("The good life", "The rise and fall of Reginald Perrin") and Ennio Morricone's forays into the italian acid scene with maybe a 1962 dulux paint ad thrown in along the way.
Richly melodic, jazzy material such as Dudley Moore's highly refined "Morning walk" (from thirty is a dangerous age, Cynthia), the ebbulent Mild Euphoria original "Delicious pie", the classic Monochrome Set signature dish "Lester leaps in" and "spring song" (written by the absurdly underrated hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo) compliment perfectly stranger, more oblique selections such as the shimmering piece de resistance "Joyful", the dreamlike "Sound of chartreuse", the almost dissonant "Stay tuned" and the hallucinagenic title track.
so whether by psychedelic trip, elizabethan parody or religious pastiche, this eclectic juxtaposition of styles coagulates perfectly on to form a magical whole; achieved with a humour and artistry that pop has forgotten.
"Let's dissolve" is a triumph of the imagination. The most significant instrumental pop since "Telstar". Intelligent, stylish and great fun; it is the way pop should be.
one day all records will be made this way.
Track listing:
1. "One Day In Colour"
2. "Morning Walk"
3. "Joyful"
4. "Delicious Pie"
5. "The Sound Of Chartreuse"
6. "Lester Leaps In"
7. "Spring Song"
8. "Stay Tuned"
9. "Let's Dissolve"
10. "Knight's Castile"
11. "One Day In Colour"
Twee Kitten review of Let's Dissolve
by Keith Mclachlan
The band's name seems appropriate, I find myself easily imagining the reaction of the record company after these tunes were turned in for release and brave young artists Jeremy and John asked for an appraisal and well it came back 'mild euphoria'. Allegedly this is for kids and although this type of music may be exactly what the kids need, its coma-inducing effects might keep them from tagging subway trains, car-jacking or selling meth that they made with the chemistry set their parents got them for christmas and their mom's Allegra prescription. Of course had the name chosen been instead mild cholera then that might have been something celebratory but mild euphoria?!? perhaps for avid canasta players the run of a good number of hands might qualify but pop music usually demands more. For while some of it might sound like an audition tape to be the backing band of David Cassidy or maybe since they are British Simon Turner back in his teen-pop fandom days most of it sounds like the sort of wallpaper in the background of a Pink Panther movie, where Inspector Clousseau has just stepped in a can of paint instead of making love to the beautiful woman invariably bent on his destruction (likely I remembering things incorrectly). But are Pink Panther movies for kids? I saw them when i was a kid and the slapstick was funny but I am not sure it would be funny to kids today, but then what do I know I have never believed 'Willy Wonka' was much of a kids movie because I always found it a bit sinister and frightening not 'The Day After'-like frigthening but certainly more chilling than any of the 'Friday the 13th' movies. Mild Euphoria then don't seem to have their place secured, likely no one under 15 will hear this, I suppose a 15-year old is still a child but they surely won't be begging Paul Oakenfold for a spin at one of his 3000 dollar per hour club appearances, but then maybe they should take the music to the kids and prove me wrong book a tour of the elementary schools all across the world and realize just how out of touch they are when the kids start screaming for DMX and 'Break Stuff'. Oh and an aside, the best Mild Euphoria songs are actually on the Reverie Siesta compilation called 'Dream Drops' and they do not reappear here so balance your options carefully.
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