Daily Variety March 15, 1993 Monday SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 12 LENGTH: 1043 words HEADLINE: Music News; Arista's DuBois rumored to be shopping services BYLINE: John Carmen BODY: "I HATE THE WORD 'Beatle-esque' with a passion," Jellyfish lead singer Andy Sturmer said. "We get hit with that tag all the time, and I feel that it's extremely inaccurate." OK, how about Queen-esque, Raspberries-esque, Supertramp-esque or 10cc-esque? Jellyfish's second album for Charisma, "Spilt Milk," is one of the most lavish, lushly produced compact discs to ever cross a player, layers of vocals and keys enmeshed in a so nic stew. The sound of the songs, though, as well as the band's thrift-show regalia, is vintage '70s Anglophile pop, which some see as the band's hook, even if Sturmer claims "this is the way we naturally sound, as the result of influences as diverse as Cole Porte r and Nine Inch Nails." In fact, Sturmer says that the '60s and '80s are just as important, and their clothes make no difference at all to the band's following, who "only care about our music, and nothing else." Produced by Bee Gees boardman Alby Galuten, "Spilt Milk" opens with a choral lullabye and swings into the album's catchiest number, "Fan Club," which sports a very McCartney chorus. The band's first single from "Spilt Milk" will be "The Ghost at Number One," a song about Roy Orbison's posthumous ascension to the top of the charts. Once again, the song's basic chassis seems rather familiar, particularly to anyone who's ever heard the song "Penny Lane." Queried about the extreme difficulty the band would have in reproducing its meticulous studio sound on its upcoming European and West Coast tours, which begin in April, Sturmer admits, "We don't really try to sound just like the record, although we do ha ve four excellent vocalists, and we won't use backing tapes."