Harmony without any irony: The big gala with the best from the 60s and 70s.
Brian and Michael D’Addario bring an issue they last shared through a collaboration with Todd Rundgren. He also knows the problem: what happens when musical talent and the desire for artistic freedom are so great that the audience can no longer keep up? The Lemon Twigs were a great band from the start, who hasn’t praised their debut DO HOLLYWOOD with its 60’s and 70’s mashup of 2016? (at that time four and a half stars in the ME) But also: who then listened to this album often? Hm.
They called their third record 2020 SONGS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, meant ironically, because: MUSIC FOR THE MASSES wasn’t it. And so what the Lemon Twigs did seemed nerdy and geeky in the end. The way out: EVERYTHING HARMONY! Gone is the irony, the two brothers let themselves fall uninhibitedly into the harmonies. It starts with “When Winter Comes Around”, greetings from Simon & Garfunkel.
“In My Head” sounds like what the Beach Boys might have sounded like in the late ’70s if the band chemistry hadn’t gone haywire. Further on there is soft rock, power pop, piano ballads, west coast folk – all arranged with virtuosity as usual, but played to really reach the heart. “What Happens To The Heart?” is the name of a baroque pop song in the middle part of the album. The answer: It falls hopelessly into what is by far the Lemon Twigs’ best album to date.