There’s an undefeatable, circular logic the D’Addario siblings use to qualify their approach to making music so resolutely archaic; speaking with Far Out recently, brother Michael explained that “It helps to not feel in competition with anyone..It’s good to just be on your own completely and not feel like what you’re going to put out is going to age or come out of a particular moment or fad.”
Can’t be out of fashion is you were never in fashion, got it. But if as The Lemon Twigs they’ve it seems always viewed modernity as a drag, realising that vision musically is harder than it looks. Up until now on a trio of releases Do Hollywood (2016), Go to School (2018) and Songs For The General Public (2020) the balance of form and substance hasn’t quite been enough to part them from being a cult concern, but Everything Harmony could – and should – do the trick.
Why this time? Well, chiefly because the brothers have moved on from writing songs that sound like other classic songs to just writing classic songs: in words the refinement seems minor, but in practice it certainly isn’t. Here you can spoil yourself with tunes like Born To Be Lonely, Every Day Is The Worst Day of My Life and Any Time of Day, each chocolate box perfect and rhinestone sad, whilst What Happens To A Heart is a career peak for anyone who’ll listen. Everything Harmony could’ve been released at any time in the last fifty years, but thank your lucky stars it’s arrived right now.
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