The Lemon Twigs
Schedule
Mon Sep 09 2024 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
The Grove | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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Following the release of Everything Harmony, which garnered acclaim from Questlove, Iggy Pop, Anthony Fantano, The Guardian, and countless others,
The Lemon Twigs—the New York City rock band fronted by brothers Brian and
Michael D’Addario—have once again captured the attention of the music
listening public. Set for release less than a year after their last album,
A Dream Is All We Know is a joyous affair. As the title suggests, it’s less
of a sober look at the darker side of life, and more a hopeful sojourn into
the realm of dreams.
Michael’s line in lead single and album opener “My Golden Years” – “In time
I hope that I can show all the world the love in my mind” – serves as a
statement of intent for the whole collection of songs, as the brothers race
against time to create as much quality pop material as possible. On track
two, The Lemon Twigs invite listeners into a bubblegum paradise with
euphoric harmonies and biting clavinet (“They Don’t Know How To Fall In
Place”), followed by an existential space age epic (“A Dream Is All I
Know”), and, elsewhere on the album, a baroque pocket-prog tune (“Sweet
Vibration”), a two-part nightmare-comedy that doesn’t let up (“Peppermint
Roses”), and more.
Equipped with the songwriting chops of a lost era (somewhere between The
Brill Building and 10452 Bellagio Road) the new record was carefully
arranged and produced entirely analog in the brothers’ Brooklyn recording
studio. Most of the tracks were constructed with the two brothers swapping
instruments and layering all the parts themselves, but one exception to
that rule was “In The Eyes Of The Girl,” which was co-produced by Sean Ono
Lennon in his upstate New York studio.
While the album is chock full of progressive pop ideas, it closes
appropriately with an ode to early rock and roll on “Rock On (Over and
Over),” contextualizing the band as part of a lineage of rock and roll
that’s never really stopped. For The Lemon Twigs, it took almost a decade
for critics and audiences alike to present them with the major accolades
they’ve earned this past year. While their initial records were appreciated
for the musical proficiency they displayed, the brothers’ past few records
have communicated their ideas with more clarity and emotional resonance. In
other words, “It took too long to say ‘rock on.’”
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