A Dream Is All We Know
The brotherly duo’s ambitious fifth studio album sees them perfect their rock’n’roll pastiche, with a hint at an even brighter future
As if it weren’t obvious from the album’s promotional singles, A Dream Is All We Know is a departure from last year’s Everything Harmony, which toyed with softer sonic palettes and emotional vulnerability.
Perhaps the most divisive quality of The Lemon Twigs, the singular invention of Long Island brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario, is that their aesthetic doesn’t so much nod reverentially to the past as permanently reside there.
Charlotte Griffiths reviews the new album from New York duo The Lemon Twigs! Read the review of 'A Dream Is All We Have' here!
The Lemon Twigs' 'A Dream Is All We Know' displays scholarly mastery of the complex techniques their forbears invented. The sheer musicality is prodigious.
Listening to the propulsive, shiny pop of Radical Optimism feels like attending a Dua Lipa dance class, where no step is ever out of place