The Lemon Twigs - Tchotchke

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 Following the release of Everything Harmony, which garnered acclaim from Questlove, IggyPop, Anthony Fantano, The Guardian, and countless others, The Lemon Twigs—the New YorkCity 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. Equipped with the songwriting chops of a lost era (somewhere between The Brill Building and10452 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 a like 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.’”