Lemon Twigs' "A Dream Is All We Know" is their new album

Brand new, you're retro: Long Island brothers make swift return with fifth album.

“Every day is like a memory/Of someone I knew a thousand years ago/I've never heard or seen.” As suggested on insomniac’s lament They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place, there’s an unnerving glitch in Michael and Brian D’Addario’s musical matrix, their newest record again suggesting that two skinny New York musi­cians became jammed in a pop wormhole sometime between 1968 and 1974 and still haven’t wriggled free. 

As with 2023’s downbeat Everything Harmony, what might just be a Beatles-Beach-Boys-Big-Star data-scrape is elevated through high-calibre songwriting, My Golden Years soaked in insta-nostalgia. 

The Sean Ono Lennon- produced In The Eyes Of The Girl sinks into the psychedelic surf. 

It’s impossible to shake the uncanny-valley unease, though, especially during Peppermint Roses, a nervous breakdown in ruffles and lace. A dream, maybe, but there’s something of the nightmare about them.