£7.99
Gatefold Digipak with lyrics and artwork.
Reviews:
The artwork for Jud Vandys 'Children Lost In Fantasy Part 1' is bright yet bleak and abstract which portrays the contents of the album perfectly. Opening track 'Edison Fair' is a rousing and aggressive start driven by marching drums, distortion seething in and out while the guitars make a devilish impact on the track with the use of alternative tunings and tones often making it sound much akin to an emergency alarm. Melody is supplied in the form of Vandys original vocals and synth use giving the song its personality. 'Small Town Claustrophobia' opens sounding like Pelican or Isis with its dirty distorted riff surprising you after the melodic 'Silhouette of An Ending'. It keeps you on your toes by cutting between this memorable riff and a beautiful guitar melody as Vandys floating vocals provide the glue that stick the piece together. 'Liquid Night' is eclectic, emotional and mysterious, driven by its quirky slide bassline it becomes memorable as Mella Cottons haunting vocals bring chills to the your spine in the chorus offering something different in tone than Vandys has previously on the song. 'Please Please (Winter Song)', the stand-out track for me, starts beautifully with guitar harmonics before it explodes driven by a stuttering drum beat behind melodically dirty guitars as Vandy begs "Please please...". What really makes this song stand out for me however, is the mid section of the track, where everything drops away into a beautiful quiet moment only for you to be surprised by the huge evil metal sounding guitar riff which on the whole is something that I would expect a band like Deftones to come up with.
'Children Lost In Fantasy Part 1' is an adventurous piece of art that continuously keeps you on your toes, touching on several genres including post-rock, metal and even folk. Its attractiveness lies on how eclectic it is, happy to flirt with both beautiful and dark melodies and even more happy to move from slow to upbeat tempos which works incredibly well from the downbeat and quiet 'Hey You' to the dirty and angry guitar riffs on 'Please Please (Winter Song)'. ...Everything from the CD digipack to the musicianship and production on the album is really something to write home about and people should definitely be opening their ears to this album.
Craig Broad, God Is In The TV Zine (26/01/2010)
Over the years Camborne's Jud Vandy has blown me away with his singular songwriting vision, which has now exploded into two mindwarping albums filled with more ideas than most musicians explore over ten.
The first CD is Jud on everything – vocals, guitars, bass, percussion, MIDI and more. The only help he gets is Mella Cotton's haunting vocals on the sublime Liquid Night.
This is psychedelic pop with nods to everyone from The Cure and Syd Barrett to Bombay Bicycle Club and Foals, but mostly it sounds like Jud Vandy.
Opener Edison Fair is as madly addictive as primetime Klaxons while its Waltzy Reprise is nothing so much as Cornwall's answer to Animal Collective; blissed out chorale madness.
Jud really is an ingenious songwriter who needs to be heard by a wider audience.
Lee Trewhela, The West Briton (20/10/2011)
1. Edison Fair
2. Silhouette Of An Ending
3. Small Town Claustrophobia
4. Liquid Night
5. Hey You
6. Please Please (Wintersong)
7. Sal Embryo
8. Edison Fair Part II (Waltzy Reprise)
9. Ridyard