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‘Who wants to stare at a computer?’ Pop duo the Lemon Twigs on the joys of analogue life
As teenagers, the New York brothers swiftly rose to become retro pop darlings – until they weren’t. Now older, wiser and taking inspiration from the travails of their family, they’re making their best music yet
It’s a golden age for the period piece: One Day ’s gauzy revisit of the 90s, Stranger Things ’ endless referencing of 80s ephemera, and even My Brilliant Friend ’s sun-bathed vision of turbulent postwar Italy offering respite from a news cycle of bloodshed and trauma. At its best it approached the wit and depth of Tim Minchin’s Matilda the Musical, summoning unexpected empathy for its villains and, on the single Small Victories, delivering a wiser-than-their-years takedown of an unjust class system. Their sonic Tardis has gone back a half decade or so, offering a smörgåsbord of mid- to late-60s flavours, from the eerily Lennon-esque rasp of Church Bells, to the sardonic Byrdsian jangle of If You and I Are Not Wise, to the Beach Boys doo-wop of In the Eyes of the Girl.
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