Lemon Twigs

these guys are from my hometown. my high school orchestra teacher is a mutual friend of mine and the older brother's.

They're awesome - McDonald brothers of Redd Kross / Donnie & Joe / Rundgren / Jellyfish vibe

i can't believe how young they are.

i like this
napoleon stardust

they were on french tv for a live performance yesterday.
I had never heard of them.
it was retro, clumsy, affected and very teenage poseurs but it had an unexpected charm and energy.
the singer/guitarist has a pete townshend shtick that could be either annoying or funny...
I'm not sure they're not just a joke though.

pretty interesting stuff to my ear, whoever's making the decisions about how the vocal layering works has some really good ideas. ditto that bass tone in the verses during the song whose video starts this thread. the whole LOOK, GOOFBALLS thing is a huge turnoff to me but whatcha gonna do, crowded market right

watch this if you like fun and excitement

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p055w63c/glastonbury-2017-the-lemon-twigs

new EP out today - material from 2015. this is a super interesting band.

http://www.4ad.com/releases/855

I took my short legged woman
To the dance last night
We watched the highway patrol
Take selfies with Nardwuar
Nardwuar

occasionally sound like Big Star to my ears

did a live set / interview with Pseu Braun a couple weeks back

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81202

i think they are from my neck of the woods. syosset, long island? a town away from where i grew up. i think they're from the d'addario family that makes the guitar strings.

Hicksville, in fact.

if i was in LA, i'd go to see them at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next month.

they were hardworking child actors 10-15 years ago

a few songs on this evoke early-to-mid-period Bee Gees for me, which is an itch I seldom get scratched

These guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVAF6OMvPw

Rod Argent talks with the Lemon Twigs

https://www.talkhouse.com/a-conversation-with-the-zombies-rod-argent-and-the-lemon-twigs/

that's really sweet!

new single "The One" is splendid. album's out May 1st

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TNVOqRLBwU

Cracker!

"Live in Favor of Tomorrow" off the new album is such a solid Roy Wood pastiche that when I get it stuck in my head I can only hear his voice singing it.

...I mean, the one that immediately follows it kinda does likewise, doesn't it?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2tO88U7ds4

They keep switching out the *other* members don't they? I used to like the old set-up; a guy on drums and a girl on bass. But then it changed and may even have changed again i dunno. Hard band to keep up with.

Seems they've pretty much recorded just the two of them and the live band was changed after the 1st album.

Enjoyed the overall vibe of Go To School a lot with a few standout faves, but perhaps in keeping with the title this record has a bunch of songs that really *pop* in a way I wouldn’t have expected from anyone in the current crop of rock-nostalgia cosplayers. If this is still a thing you want in 2020 you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone doing it better.

the vocals are a lot as usual but there are a handful of stone killer jams on the new one (again, as usual)

the hyper retro production is maybe a little too on-the-nose

some noses are pretty hot though

also it really dives off a cliff at the end

HELL ON WHEELS
HELL ON WHEELS
DIRTY SCREAMING WHITE HOT JEANS

Only one comment concerning Songs From The General Public? I love them so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdzDRhTTfnc

I should listen to this whole album. Been hearing "Corner of My Eye" and "In My Head" on the radio a lot, both pretty great.

I really never got these guys until Everything Harmony, which I only heard this autumn and has swiftly become one of my favourite records of all time. The pop is so sweet and so sad, they have no fear of coming off too cheesy or seeming uncool - like, there are songs here that sound like they could have been written by Barry Manilow, and I am 100% there for it. The backstory to the record - that they wrote it for a beloved relative who has dementia, and channelled the 60s/70s soft-pop of her youth in these songs, and that the theme bleeds into the lyrics in subtle ways - really makes it land as well. I've been listening back to their earlier stuff and it's really not clicking for me like Everything Harmony, but this album is so strong. Can't wait to hear what they do next.

the whole LOOK, GOOFBALLS thing is a huge turnoff to me

it was for me, too. but really worth listening beyond.

Get the feeling Michael is reigning in his more theatrical vocals recently

this is one of my most "i should love this but i just can't seem to" bands of all-time.

that context for the new one, though, might help. i will listen again.

I can really enjoy them in small doses.

Is it the skinny tank tops that puts you off?

I think they were very much styled like a lot of "ironic" bands from the late-90s that would feature in style mags I occasionally worked for, and I hated those bands so much, and I think that was the disconnect for me. But it's very clear, from this latest record, and what I hear when I delve into their back catalogue, that there's little cynical irony at play, that this is very much from the heart and they mean it, maaaan, and that works better for me with this sort of music than some feigned distance. I definitely screwed up, in other words.

yah they are amazing

this is one of my most "i should love this but i just can't seem to" bands of all-time

Same! I wish I liked anything else by them as much as "The One"

they work best live i think

this beach boys/beatles cover is sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn7_vC18mlE

Opening track on the new album is so lovely. Like pretty much everyone here I was highly suspicious of these guys but stevie's entusiasm for them has got me thinking

Great live vocals on that clip.

They remind me of Emitt Rhodes - they sound amazing! But the songwriting isn't quite there for me.

New album could be a grower through

I'm really getting into their album from last year. Like Stevie, their image was kind of a turn-off for me too but the songs are there. I must go back to their earlier stuff again. They are retro but not slavishly so imo.

I've subsequently fallen really hard for their earlier stuff, too. Esp their musical, Go To School, about a family that adopts a chimp and send it to school, where it is bullied, and rebels by burning down the school. In terms of storytelling and witty character-driven lyricism it's up there with Tim Minchin's Matilda, and my family are so sick of it and have already banned me from quoting the lines "Good morning, it's breakfast / I know how you like your bananas".

They do a fantastic job of playing with humour and also writing songs that are earnest, heartfelt and incredibly emotional, sometimes in the same track. I challenge anyone to listen to New Again, their song about someone with dementia telling their partner that if they cease recognising them, they will simply fall in love with them all over again, and not find a lump in their throat.