4/29/2024

The Lemon Twigs Release New Single And Video “How Can I Love Her More?”

The Lemon Twigs Release New Single And Video “How Can I Love Her More?”

New Album A Dream Is All We Know Out May 3 On Captured Tracks

Photo credit: Stephanie Pia

Summer Tour On Sale Now – NYC Double Header Already Sold Out

Watch The Lemon Twigs 2024 Performance on Fallon HERE

 

Today, The Lemon Twigs — NYC’s sibling duo composed of Brian and Michael D’Addario — release “How Can I Love Her More?”, the thematic backbone of their forthcoming album, A Dream Is All We Know (out May 3 on Captured Tracks).

Wrestling with love and lost love, “How Can I Love Her More?” is a whirlwind of musical flights of fancy. Blaring horns and strings set the stage before the song settles into a rollicking shuffle, complete with two drum sets, an adventurous bass part, theremin, flutes and harpsichord — “How Can I Love Her More?” is The Lemon Twigs at their multi-instrumentalist best. 

Watch and listen to “How Can I Love Her More?”, directed and edited by The Lemon Twigs, the video is a cheeky trip through Central Park, museum row, and moments of NYC mischief, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbppp0j7f5w

Says Michael D’Addario on the track: “With “How Can I Love Her More?” we tried to bridge the gap between professional Brill Building writing and the more off the wall writing style of the post Sgt Pepper psychedelic scene. There are a lot of musical ideas but it’s still a catchy pop song. We had a lot of fun with the recording of this one, overdubbing two drum sets, some theremin, and strings and horns (all played by Brian).”

Recorded completely to tape and mixed and mastered by Brian and Michael themselves on of-the-era equipment, A Dream Is All We Know presents a tracklist that is historically accurate, but altogether new. From the timeless tropes of the  Lennon-McCartney songbook — including the most explicit example yet, with co-production on “In The Eyes Of The Girl” by Sean Ono Lennon — to the skyrocketing harmonies of the Wilson family and nods to The Move, Big Star, Tradewinds and more, A Dream Is All We Know revisits the 1968 sound the D’Addarios teased the potential of making almost a decade ago on Do Hollywood. 

Most recently, The Lemon Twigs have been praised by Questlove for going “full Debarge” on their 2023 LP Everything Harmony, described as “remarkably inventive… harmonically unlike anything that’s come before them” by Michael McDonald on Rick Beato’s show, and performed “My Golden Years” and “How Can I Love Her More?” on WNYC All Of It, who praised the tracks for their “masterful pastiche”. Watch here: https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-lemon-twigs-live-from-five/

Pre-order A Dream Is All We Know here: https://lemontwigs.ffm.to/adreamisallweknow.opr

A Dream Is All We Know album art

A Dream Is All We Know Tracklist

My Golden Years  

They Don't Know How To Fall In Place 

Church Bells 

A Dream Is All I Know 

Sweet Vibration 

In The Eyes Of The Girl 

If You And I Are Not Wise 

How Can I Love Her More 

Ember Days 

Peppermint Roses 

I Should've Known Right From The Start 

Rock On (Over and Over) 

 

Praise For A Dream Is All We Know:

““My Golden Years” is infectious, with the band sounding like they now favor feelings over faithful homage.” —FADER 

“[The Lemon Twigs] are operating at the very peak of their songwriting power.” —The Guardian

"Shimmering guitar melodies and a propulsive drum groove... “My Golden Years” has serious Beach Boys vibes." —FLOOD 

““My Golden Years” is a genuinely good song, with passionate vocals that lean more custom than copycat.” —Nylon

 “Grand pop songs that harken back to the psychedelia and prog rock of the 1960s and 70s… masterful pastiche.” —WNYC

“A fresh, dozen-track bushel of pond-crossing ’60s sensibilities… “They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place” oozes that iconic 1960s counterculture aesthetic.” KUTX Song Of The Day

 

The Lemon Twigs On Tour

April 25 - TV Eye - Brooklyn, NY (SOLD OUT)

May 2 - TV Eye - Brooklyn, NY (SOLD OUT)

May 4 - White Eagle Hall - Jersey City, NJ

May 5 - The Southern Cafe and Music Hall - Charlottesville, VA

May 7 - Kings - Raleigh, NC

May 9 - The Pour House - Charleston, SC

May 10 - Tuffys Music Box - Sanford, FL

May 11 - Heartwood Soundstage - Gainesville, FL

May 12 - Crowbar - Tampa, FL

May 14 - 40 Watt - Athens, GA

May 15 - Saturn - Birmingham, AL

May 17 - The Burl - Lexington, KY

May 18 - Rumba Cafe - Columbus, OH

May 25 - CCVF - Guimarães, Portugal

May 26 - LAV - Lisbon, Portugal

May 28 - Sala Copérnico - Madrid, Spain (SOLD OUT)

May 29 - Kafe Antzokia - Bilbao, Spain

May 30 - Sala Oasis - Zaragoza, Spain

June 1 - Primavera Sound Festival - Barcelona, Spain

August 29 - September 1 - End of the Road Festival - Salisbury, UK

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