Lemon Twigs
A Dream Is All We Know
Since the release of their debut studio album 'Do Hollywood' in 2016, the New York City rock band fronted by two brothers have waved the same revivalist torch as Alex Chilton and his Big Star crew, working to prove that archaic music from the '60s and '70s can still be relevant in digital world. The brothers continued the momentum of their own evolving vision and voice, distilling a history lesson of baroque and power pop into 'A Dream Is All We Know.' 'A Dream Is All We Know' is not the acoustic, nylon string-based project that the previous album was. Instead, it's a return to the form the Lemon Twigs first introduced on 'Do Hollywood' - an electric guitar-centric, anthemic assemblage of, really, everything the band does great. These two companion records are an immediate example of a band capitalizing on their fire-in-the-belly appetite to make tunes that boast ubiquitous chemistry. 'A Dream Is All We Know' is grandiose yet grounded; meticulous, yet wild and glowing. Made with analog precision, the album was finished in the immediate months after the band completed 'Everything Harmony' during a vibrant, prolific period split between three studios on separate coasts. 'A Dream Is All We Know' is a profoundly dense and charged album, rife with string arrangements and a sonic thesis statement that has quaked through phases of glam, conceptualism, baroque, and Mustang-loud, stone-cold rock'n'roll for more than half-a-century. 'A Dream Is All We Know' sounds like it's lived a thousand lives already.