Jet Set Records
2001
Death By Chocolate
About This Album
Death by Chocolate contributed a couple of the more bizarrely captivating songs to Jetset's second and third installments of the Songs for the Jet Set series, but one wouldn't be remiss to question whether or not their twee yet strangely subversive 1960s pastiches could successfully extend to an entire album. The group (or perhaps "concept" is a more appropriate designation) emphatically answers the question on its eponymous debut full-length. Led by mere teenage nymphette Angela Faye Tillett, Death by Chocolate sounds like everything that the '60s were and everything that they were supposed to be all wrapped up in the same package. Milky-skinned innocence is juxtaposed against Serge Gainsbourg-like heavy breathing, Victorian dress-up shares space with streamlined space-age fashion, and a private childlike worldview exists alongside the freakish surreal haze of the international jet set. In other words, Death by Chocolate, at any particular moment, sounds as if it could be the work of the hairy house band in a sleazy go-go joint on Sunset Strip, a group of art-school kids providing the music for a museum opening (not unlike Stereolab, in fact, who once served that very role), a band playing the soundtrack to a Sid & Marty Krofft children's program, or a group of session musicians scoring a spy thriller.
Track List (try tracks 4,6,10 and 15)

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