A solo album by one half of the Long Island brothers band The Lemon Twigs, here channelling his many 60s and 70s influences, from The Beatles to The Hollies, Beach Boys to Byrds to Dave Clark Five, bringing balladic beauty and melancholy, and old-school vocal harmony pop. It’s hard not really to simply view this as another Lemon Twigs album, as brother Michael co-produced the album, contributed backing vocals, and also co-wrote two of the songs, with former Beach Boys collaborator Stephen Kalinich also wrote the lyrics for two songs. So this feels very much like a classic retro-style release, from the former Song of the Day, opener and title track, the sweet, gentle Song of Everyone, the Hollies-style Nothing On My Mind, the pedal steel slow country of One Day I’m Coming Home, the Byrds-eque Only To Ease My Mind, the hand-clapping 60s flower-power pop of Flash In the Pan, the wistful We’ll Meet Again-style piano ballad Company. There’s much to bathe in here as if this was a hot summer in the early 1970s. What You Are Is Beautiful is a particularly gorgeous acoustic number, while Useless Tears is full-on baroque pop. A Brian album in name because of his prolific songwriting with extra songs to air between the next main album, but in every other way, this feels very much like another lovely Lemon Twigs release. Out on Headstack Records.
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